Acclaim

“…Moutouzkine played Brahms’ Op.117 Intermezzi more beautifully, more movingly than I’ve ever heard them. At once sad, tender and noble, this was playing of heart-stopping intimacy and elegance…” – Dallas Morning News

“…grandly organic, with many personal and pertinent insights, offering a thoughtful balance between rhetoric and fantasy…technically dazzling.” – International Piano Magazine

“Two glorious, fleeting hours! Alexandre Moutouzkine from Russia took command of the stage…and presented a program of refined and unsurpassed quality…Moutouzkine possesses an enormously large and natural technique, he uses it wisely and solely for the purpose of making great music.” – The Newberry Observer

“Pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine gave his Florida debut…and what a performance it was. We heard passion, intensity, virtuosity, control, style, maturity – everything one could ask for in a recital, and all from a man of only 22.” – Palm Beach Daily News

“…sprightly and at the same time astonishingly inspired…Moutouzkine performed not only with mastery, but also with magnificent brilliance and energy…” – Daily News, Russia

“Moutouzkine attacked the piece in a way that left the audience spellbound… Moutouzkine’s delicate handling of the piece along with his extremely accurate, yet emotional interpretation left many of the audience members in tears.” – The Maroon

“It became a question of artistic interpretation and the breadth of each person’s repertoire.
I look for musical eloquence and personality, and I ask myself if there is something that moves me about their performance. Alexander had this, the quality that I call poetry on the piano.” –Times Picayune

“But how lovingly, how tenderly he caressed the lyric music, sometimes stretching the pulse quite daringly, and the scherzo glittered with myriad felicities of touch and taper.” – Dallas Morning News

“Seven years on, he’s still growing musically, but everything in his Brahms betokened thought and dedication, and key phrases were lovingly turned.” – Dallas Morning News

“The most impressive quality in Moutouzkine’s playing, for me at least, was the beauty of tone he extracts from this presumed ‘percussion instrument’ never once, in even the loudest passages, was there an ugly moment.” – Spokesman.com

“In the passages with the piano alone, is seemed as if the sound of the piano occupied a space larger than the hall itself, transporting the listener quite completely. A joy and an encouragement to hear.” – Ellsworth American

“Alexandre Moutouzkine, the Gold Medalist, performed a brilliant rendition of Ravel’s ‘La Valse’ that garnered an immediate standing ovation from the audience.” – Classy Classical

“An elegantly played ‘Three Songs’ underscored how much this pianist was in his natural element interpreting Chopin, whose melodic gifts were conveyed in the pianist’s whispered light touch.” – Baltimore Sun

“…remarkably mature and stylistically excellent performance…” – New York Concert Review