Alexander Sitkovetsky, Violin
British violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky was born in Moscow in 1983 into a family with an established musical tradition. At the age of eight, Alexander made his debut performance as a soloist with the chamber orchestra in Montpellier, France, and later that same year he was invited to become a pupil at the Yehudi Menuhin School where he studied with Natalia Boyarsky and Professor Hu Kun. He continued his studies with Hu Kun at the Royal Academy of Music. Currently Alexander is studying with Professor Pavel Vernikov.
Since their first meeting in Moscow in 1990, Lord Menuhin became a great inspiration for Alexander and supported him through his school years. Together they performed the Bach Double Violin Concerto in France and Belgium, as well as Bartok's Duos at St James's Palace in London. In 1996, Alexander played Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in Budapest with Lord Menuhin conducting.
Alexander has performed in many international music festivals throughout Europe, including the Radio France Festival (Montpellier), Music Festival in Oldenburg, the Verbier Music Festival and Academy (Switzerland), Tuscan Sun Festival (in Cortona, Italy), the Utrecht Music Festival, the Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival and Julia Fischer and Friends Festival (Germany).
He has been featured as a soloist at many famous venues throughout Europe, including London's Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall; Salla Verdi (Milan), Palais des Congres (Antibes) as well as in Israel, Hawaii and Moscow. The Strad magazine has featured Alexander as one of the “Stars of the New Century”. He was featured as a soloist in the “Tchaikovsky Experience” documentary by BBC Television which was broadcast on BBC Two in February 2007.
He has released two CD recordings for Angel Records (a part of Capitol/EMI Classics group). His second CD recording for EMI/Angel featuring concerto performances by Bach, Mendelssohn, Panufnik and Takemitsu was released in January 2004 and received unanimous critical acclaim. Alexander has recorded the Mendelssohn Double Violin Concerto with Dinorah Varsi and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra for Orfeo, and the Bach Double Violin Concerto with Julia Fischer and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields for Decca.
Alexander is also a committed chamber musician and has collaborated with some of the most important artists of today, including, Julia Fischer, Misha Maisky, Bella Davidovich, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Sarah Chang, Natalie Clein, Polina Leschenko, Julian Bliss, Maxim Rysanov, Sebastian Klinger, Michael Sanderling and many others.
In 2008 Alexander made his concerto debut at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Philharmonic with Yakov Kreizberg after which he received an immediate re-invitation for the 2010-2011 Season. He made his debut with the Bangkok, Monterey Symphonies and the National Orchestra of Ecuador as well as perform recitals in the UK, Europe and appear in many festivals all over Europe.
In 2009-2010, Alexander will perform once again with the BBC Concert Orchestra, the National Orchestra in Ecuador, and make his debuts with the l'Orchestre de Pau, Pays de Béarn and the Kammeorchester Heilbronn in Germany.