Alexander Kagan

Violin

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  Alexander Kagan was born into a family of musicians in Moscow. After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory he studied with Kolja Blacher in Hamburg and Berlin.

  He has won prizes at the Glazunov International Competition in Paris, the David Oistrakh International Violin Competition in Odessa, Assembly International Competition, Moscow and the Pinerolo International Chamber Music Competition in Italy.

  Engagements in the 2011/12 season include a concert at the Kronberg Academy, Germany, playing Masuryan’s Double Concerto with Alexander Buzlov and the Kremerata Baltica Chamber Orchestra; a debut at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto; Prokofoev’s Second Violin Concerto in two concerts with the Orchestra of the Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan; and the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Russian State Orchestra in the Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow.

  With repertoire comprising concerti by Beethoven, Mozart, Vivaldi, Bach, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Lalo, Bruch, Paganini, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, other recent engagements have included performances with the ‘Hermitage’ Chamber Orchestra, Kiev Philharmonic, Saratov Philharmonic, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Nizhni Novgorod Philharmonic, Norddeutsche Rundfunk, Rostock, Moscow Soloists, Georgian Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico and the Orchestra of Khabarovsk. In March 2011 he toured Israel with the Jerusalem Festival Orchestra.

  A keen chamber musician, Alexander Kagan performs regularly at concerts including the Ars Longa “December Evenings”, Moscow’s “Dedication Festival”, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, the Mittlefest in Civedale, Eindhoven’s Storioni Chamber Music Festival, a the International Music Festival at Lübeck.

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  • Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, opus 19: Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico
    (March 2010)

    ...applausi per tutti, convintissimi per Kagan, con ripetizione dello Scherzo del Concerto di Prokofiev.

    Il Giornale di Vicenza

  • Moscow Philharmonic
    (January 2010)

    Among the new generation of young violinists, I would certainly refer to Alexander Kagan. He is one of those talented musicians, who deserves the attention not only of musical experts, critics, musicologists, but also by orchestra directors and managers, seeking unique personalities for the European world’s stages. As I live in Russia and unfortunately I haven’t often have the opportunity to attend performances of Alexander Kagan, I still cherish the memory of a rehearsal and a concert in Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. It was a special concert, which opened the concert season of the Moscow Philharmonic on October 1st, 2009, the “International Day of Music”. Accompanied by the Moscow State Academic Orchestra under Yuri Simonov he brilliantly performed the rarely played virtuosic variations of Gounod’s “Faust” by Wieniawski in a special project “Violin in Opera”. Together with his special artistic freedom and technical mastery, I would like to point out a rare quality among current violinists; I would describe it with the forgotten and old-fashioned word “charm”. Such special skills of Alexander Kagan as dexterity of fingers, dynamic amplitude and a special “something” allows me to attribute that to his lucky genetic inheritance. I am convinced, that those people, who take an interest in the promotion opportunities of Alexander Kagan will make the right decision, which will be welcomed with a great pleasure by Moscow Philharmonic.

    Moscow Philharmonia

• Alexander Kagan Solo Repertoire

  J.S BACH

  • Sonata 1
  • Sonata 2
  • Partita 2
  • Partita 3

  BEETHOVEN

  • Sonata 1
  • Sonata 2
  • Sonata 4
  • Sonata 6
  • Sonata 8

  BRAHMS

  • Sonata 1
  • Sonata 2

  CHAUSSON

  • Poeme

  ERNST

  • Otello Fantasy

  FRANK

  • Sonate

  GRIEG

  • Sonata in C minor

  KREISLER

  • Several pieces

  MOZART

  • Several Sonatas

  PAGANINI

  • Caprices

  SAINT-SAENS

  • Rondo Capricioso
  • Fantasy for Violin and Harp

  SCHNITKE

  • Sonata Nr. 1
  • Moz-Art a la Haydn for 2 Violins
  • Madrigal

  SCHUBERT

  • Konzertstück
  • Sonatinas
  • Fantasy
  • Rondo in A minor

  SCHUMANN

  • Sonata in A Minor
  • Fantaisie

  PROKOFIEV

  • Sonata Nr. 1
  • Sonata Nr. 2
  • 5 Pieces for Violin

  TCHAIKOVSKY

  • 4 Pieces

  WIENIAWSKI

  • Faust Fantasy

  YSAYE

  • Sonate Nr. 3 (Poeme)
  • Sonata for two Violins

  Alexander Kagan Concerto Repertoire

  BACH

  • Concerto in D minor
  • Concerto in A minor
  • Concerto in E major

  BEETHOVEN

  • Violin Concerto
  • Triple Concerto

  BRAHMS

  • Violin Concerto
  • Double Concerto

  BRUCH

  • Violin Concerto No. 1

  LALO

  • Symphonie Espagnol

  MENDELSSOHN

  • Violin Concerto

  MOZART

  • Violin Concerto No.1
  • Violin Concerto No.3
  • Violin Concerto No.4
  • Violin Concerto No.5

  PAGANINI

  • Violin Concerto No.

  PROKOFIEV

  • Violin Concerto No.1
  • Violin Concerto No.2

  SIBELIUS

  • Violin Concerto

  STRAVINSKY

  • Violin Concerto

  TCHAIKOVSKY

  • Violin Concerto

  VIVALDI

  • Violin Concerto in E minor R 278

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