Alexander Bonduryansky is a Soviet and Russian pianist and music educator, a member of the Moscow Trio, and a scholar of the arts. He was born in Kherson on July 27, 1945.
He studied at a music school and the Kherson Music College, then graduated from the Gavriil Musicescu Institute of Arts in Chisinau in 1967. He completed postgraduate study at the Moscow Conservatory in 1969, studying piano with Dmitri Bashkirov and chamber ensemble with Tatyana Gaidamovich.
Bonduryansky taught piano at the Musicescu Institute of Arts from 1969 to 1971 and chamber ensemble at the Moscow Conservatory’s music college from 1973 to 1980. From 1980 he taught in the Conservatory’s chamber ensemble and quartet department, becoming a professor in 1995. He also served as a vice-rector of the Conservatory’s educational and methodological association from 2004 to 2015, and as vice-rector for artistic activity from 2011 to 2013.
He has been active as a concert pianist since 1962, performing as a soloist with Mosconcert from 1971 to 1991 and the Moscow Philharmonic from 1991 to 2003. He joined the Moscow Trio in 1968, alongside violinist Vladimir Ivanov and cellist Mikhail Utkin. The trio won first prize at the 1972 Belgrade International Piano Trio Competition, along with all of the competition’s special prizes; Bonduryansky also received awards at competitions in Riga, Estonia, Munich, Budapest, and Bordeaux.
His publications include a study of the interpretation of Johannes Brahms’s piano trios and a 1988 dissertation abstract on their place in the historical development of the genre and their performance challenges. His honors include the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation, awarded in 1994, and the Moscow Prize in 1996.