Alexei Grynyuk
Piano
Alexei Grynyuk (Kyiv, Ukraine) showed an interest in music from a young age and started performing at six years old. When he was thirteen, he drew widespread attention by winning the first prize at the Dyagilev All-Soviet-Union Piano Competition. He went on to win numerous prizes, including first prizes at the Horowitz International Piano Competition in Kyiv and the Shanghai International Piano Competition in China.
He began his studies at the Kyiv Conservatory with Natalia Gridneva and Valery Kozlov, and continued his education with Hamish Milne at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He was later named Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) and served as a jury member at the Benjamin Britten International Violin Competition in London, as well as the ‘Vendome Prize’ International Piano Competition.
A passionate chamber musician, Alexei Grynyuk forms a piano trio with his regular partners, violinist Nicola Benedetti and cellist Leonard Elschenbroich. Throughout the last decade, they have performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Birmingham Symphony Hall, LSO St. Luke’s, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, 92Y in New York, and the Gardner Museum in Boston, as well as at festivals such as the BBC Proms, Ravinia, Istanbul, Cheltenham, and the Edinburgh International Festival.
