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.<<cut>>
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.