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Alexandre Moutouzkine joined the Astral Artists roster as a winner of its 2009 National Auditions. The Russian pianist burst onto the U.S. concert scene at the age of 19, when he received the Special Award for Artistic Potential at the XI Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Also the winner of the St. Petersburg International Piano Competition (at the age of 14), he is a laureate of numerous international competitions, among them the Cleveland International Piano Competition (where he received Third Prize, the Beethoven Prize, and the Junior Jury’s First Prize), the José Iturbi, New Orleans International, Maria Canals, and II Shanghai International competitions. Most recently, he shared Second Prize at the Montreal International Music Competition. Mr. Moutouzkine has toured widely, appearing as soloist with the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Television Orchestra of Spain, Cleveland Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic, Valencia Philharmonic, the National Symphonic Orchestra of Panama, and the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others. His performance of Chopin études at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory was recorded live and released on the Classical Music Archives label in Moscow. Upcoming engagements include Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Berlin Symphony, the Scriabin Concerto with Stamford Symphony, and Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on Themes of Paganini with Symphony in C. Mr. Moutouzkine holds both a Master’s and a post-graduate degree from the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Solomon Mikowsky, and Bachelor’s degrees from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover and Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod Music School.