Alexander Klyuchko

b. 2000 (Saransk)

Alexander Klyuchko is a Russian pianist. Born in Saransk in 2000, he began studying piano at the age of six. His family moved to Moscow in 2012, where he entered the music school at the Frédéric Chopin Moscow State College of Musical Performance. He studied with Sergei Artsibashev and graduated from the college with distinction.

From 2018 to 2021, Klyuchko studied at the Alfred Cortot School of Music in Paris with Rena Shereshevskaya. In 2021, he became a student at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studies with professor Pavel Nersessian. Klyuchko made his debut at the Moscow Philharmonic at 17 and has since toured in Russia and abroad.

He has performed at venues including the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Zaryadye Hall, the Moscow International House of Music, the Grand Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia, and the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall. His engagements have included the State Academic Symphony Orchestra named for Evgeny Svetlanov, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, and the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with conductors including Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Simonov, Alexander Sladkovsky, Alexander Rudin, Dmitri Yurovsky, and Miguel Ángel Gómez-Martínez.

Klyuchko has won or received prizes at more than 15 international competitions. His awards include first prizes at the 2016 Vera Lotar-Shevchenko International Piano Competition and the 2017 Astana Piano Passion competition; third prize at the 2018 Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition; second prize at the 2019 Maria Canals International Music Competition; and first prize at the 2022 International Rachmaninoff Competition for Pianists, Conductors and Composers, where he also received a special prize. He also won the 2020 Manhattan International Music Competition and received prizes at the 2018 Île-de-France International Piano Competition, the 2021 Suzhou International Piano Competition, and the 2022 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition.

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