2021 Radda Rise International Violin Competition
Congratulations, Aleksandr!
Aleksandr kolesnikov
First Prize Winner of Category 1
Alexander was born in 2013, and he started playing violin at 4.5 years old. He is in the first class of the CMS at Moscow Conservatoire Tchaikovsky (the class of Z.B.Zharova). Alexander is a laureate of all-Russian and international competitions. In 2018 he performed with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra "Four Seasons” under the management of V.Bulakhov 1,2,3 parts of A.Vivaldi G-major concert. In 2020 he performed with the orchestra concert by S.Berio No.9 as a winner of a competition-festival “Playing with the orchestra.” His first solo concert in 1 part was in 2019 in the hall of the Museum of Scriabin. The second solo was in 2020 in Munich in the Gasteig Small Concert Hall. Alexander took part in international master classes from professors V.V.Tretyakov and N.E.Likhopoi in July 2019, November 2019 and in February 2020, where he performed in Berlin at the final concert of master classes together with Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, conductor V.V. Tretyakov, Prelude and Alegro in the style of Pugnani F.Kreisler.