Alexander Klyuchko

Alexander Klyuchko was born in 2000 in Saransk. He began to practice piano the age of six at Children's Music School No. 6 (class of Olesya Berezina). After training at the Children's School of Music at the Frederic Chopin Moscow State Junior College of Musical Performance, in 2015 he enrolled at the College’s main programme (class of Sergei Artsibashev) graduating with honours in 2019. At the International Engadin Summer Piano Academy Samedan, Switzerland, he trained under Rena Shereshevskaya (2017), before joining her class at the École Supérieure de Musique Alfred Cortot (Paris) in 2018–2021. Since 2021, Alexander has been a student of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (class of Professor Pavel Nersessian). <>

Alexander Klyuchko has been a prize-winner of many international competitions and festivals, including Konstantin Igumnov Competition in Lipetsk, Alexei Nasedkin Competition in Yaroslavl (2nd prizes), The Path to Mastery in Moscow (2nd prize and Special Prize for Best Mozart Performance), International Vera Lotar-Shevchenko Memorial Competition in Yekaterinburg (1st prize), Competition at the Central Music School (1st prize), Virtuoso (two editions, receiving a special prize from the Yamaha Music Foundation at the second), Vladimir Krainev Piano Competition (laureate title and scholarship from the École Supérieure de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris), Youth Delphic Games in Yekaterinburg (Gold Medal among Russian participants and Silver Medal among CIS participants), Nariman Sabitov International Competition for Young Musicians in Ufa (1st prize), Astana Piano Passion (1st prize and Grand Prix), Île de France Competition (1st prize), Paloma O'Shea Competition in Santander, Spain (3rd prize), Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona, Spain (2nd prize), Manhattan International Music Competition in New York (Gold Medal). In 2017, he was awarded with a 1st grade Grant from the Mayor of Moscow. 

Alexander Klyuchko has performed at numerous venues, including the halls of the Moscow Conservatory and Moscow Philharmonic Society, Bolshoi Theater, Yamaha Art Center (Moscow), Alfred Cortot Hall in Paris, Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, Palau de Festivals de Cantabria in Santander (Spain), and others. He has appeared with the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Capella, Irkutsk Governor's Symphony Orchestra, Rostov Academic Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Astana Opera Symphony Orchestra, Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, and Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, and taken part in such festivals as Stars on the Baikal in Irkutsk, Musical Olympus in St. Petersburg, and Gradus in Aarhus (Denmark).