Alexis Golovine

“It may have been the first time in New York’s long musical history that a pianist played all of the Schubert-Liszt Soirées de Vienne at one concert. Alexis Golovin also demostrated that he is more than an ingenious maker of programs. He revealed, as he always has done in the past, a flawless technique, a sonorous tone and, above all, an understanding of what the elegant Romantic style is all about. In short, he is a complete artist.” Harold C. Schonberg

Alexis Golovin was born on 31st October 1945 in Moscow to a family of musicians. He began studying the piano at the age of five at the famous Central Music School of Moscow.

In 1964 he entered the Conservatory of Moscow, where he studied both the piano and musicology.

In 1972 he arrived in Geneva. At the Conservatory of Geneva he obtained the much coveted first prize with distinction of virtuosity. Since 1975 he has been professor of the Geneva Conservatory.

Alexis Golovin was also a prize-winner of the international competitions of Terni (A.Casagrande competition) and Bolzano (F.Busoni competition). He has given concerts and recitals throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas, and has played in numerous well-known music festivals. He has recorded numerous records and CDs. His recordings include works of Chopin and Schumann, Rachmaninoff’s Etudes Tableaux, works of Scriabin, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No1, B-minor Sonata and Mephisto Waltz, chamber music, piano concertos of Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, N.Tcherepnin, Shtchedrin.

Alexis Golovin has given numerous mastercourses at the Internationale Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Manhattan School of Music, Conservatory of Buenos-Aires, Conservatory of Moscow, in Shenzhen (China), etc.