The Philharmonic Debut

Born in 1982 in St Petersburg, Alexey Zuev gave his first public performance in the State Cappella hall there aged 8 and won Prokofiev's International Piano Competition at 17.

Alexey Zuev began playing piano aged 7, at the School of Music and the Special Music Conservatory School. He took part in various master classes with such distinguished musicians as John O'Conor, Lev Naumov, Victor Rosenbaum, Sergei Dorensky. He has studied at the Mozarteum University, Salzburg (Austria) with Professor Alexei Lubimov and was a student of Professor Elisso Wirssaladze the Music and Theatre High-School in Munich (Germany), from 2007.

Meeting the outstanding musician Alexei Lubimov in Salzburg has played an important role in Zuev's creative formation, broadening the sphere of his musical and performing interests: historical harpsichord, hammerklavier, romantic fortepiano practices, penetrating the world of radical musical avant-garde of XX century (chance music, minimalism), into the world of early music (from Gregorian Choral to Netherlands polyphonists of XV century), into classical art- and jazz rock.

Many Festival performances including: Kreuth Festival of Oleg Kagan and Natalia Gutman; St Gallen Festival (Austria), ‘ Klavier-Olympiade” in Bad Kissingen, “Alpenklassik” in Bad Reichenhall, “Kissinger Sommer” and “Winterzauber”, Festival of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Ruhr International Piano festival . Additional recitals and concerto performances in Luxembourg, Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Russia.