BIOGRAPHY
Alexey Botvinov
Alexey Botvinov is an exceptional pianist, musical innovator and producer. The most acclaimed Ukrainian pianist, Botvinov is one of the best specialists in Rachmaninoff music worldwide. Botvinov is the only pianist in the world who performed Bach‘s masterpiece „Goldberg Variations“ more than 300 times on stage. Alexey Botvinov is initiator and president of “Odessa Classics” – one of the best European music festivals.
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Music connects where words often fail: This evening creates a meeting space for works by Russian and Ukrainian composers – a project that began more than ten years ago
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Invitation to a concert in memory of Andrei Sakharov, held as part of the XVI International Sakharov Conference.
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Ukraine's foremost pianist Alexey Botvinov performs Bach's Goldberg Variations — a work he has given over 300 times across nearly 50 countries. A rare and generous recital in the Engadin.
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Renowned pianist Alexey Botvinov joins forces with the Norwegian Army Band for a unique fusion of classical mastery and brass power at the Arctic Arts Festival in Harstad.
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A captivating musical encounter featuring world-renowned pianist Alexey Botvinov and the innovative NICO ensemble, performing masterpieces of contemporary minimalism.
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Ottawa Chamberfest welcomes the North American debut of Odessa Classics, the internationally acclaimed festival founded in 2015 by pianist Alexey Botvinov. Since the full-scale invasion made it impossible for the festival to continue in its home city, the celebrated “pearl of the Black Sea,” Odessa Classics has lived on in exile, bringing Ukrainian artists, music, and cultural spirit to audiences across Europe.
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We are thrilled to invite you to an evening of music and compassion. Join us for a charity piano concert by the most acclaimed Ukrainian pianist, founder and president of ODESSA CLASSICS music festival Alexey Botvinov whose breathtaking performances have captivated audiences across the globe.
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Spring 2026 promises to be spectacular with a new edition of the Barock'euses, bringing together exceptional international artists: pianists Alexei Botvinov and Kamil Osmanov, solo musicians Constantin Macherel and Anna Orlik, sopranos Laura Ansaldi, Luz del Alba Rubio, tenor Naestro, singer Rahel Baer.
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The Haydn-Orchestra Hamburg, conducted by Rida Murtada, and famous ukrainian pianist Alexei Botvinov will present the Spring Concert 2026 to the public in the main hall of the Laeiszhalle.
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The Living Canvas is a live painting inspired by world premiere dance and live piano music.
The evening presents choreographic works by Giorgio Madia, Jorge Garcia Perez, and Ye Lun, accompanied by live visual art created on stage by Nicholas Markman and solo piano performed by renowned pianist Alexei Botvinov. The performance unfolds as a living dialogue between movement, sound, and image.
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PROJECTS
International music festival
„Odessa Classics“ has already become a serious competitor to the established high-level cultural and musical European Festivals.
In the past three years the promoters took great effort in organizing an impressively versatile program of highest standards. Its enormous success justifies to spread the news as a precious insider tip to the Western world.
Goldberg. Reloaded
In 2010, Alexey Botvinov and Burhan Öçal started the “Goldberg. Reloaded” project. It was a revolutionary attempt to rethink Bach’s eternal music, combining it with the ethnorhythms of the East and lighting special effects. Öçal and Botvinov played more than 20 concerts on the most famous stages of the world.
Read morePismovnik. Elegie
At the heart of the performance lies Mikhail Shishkin’s novel “Pismovnik”. The production draws upon the novel’s central thread — lyrical and at the same time deeply philosophical. For this project, Alexey Botvinov created a stage adaptation of the novel, arranged the music, and for the first time took on the roles of director and stage designer.
Read moreDISCOGRAPHY
MUSIC FOR A NEW CENTURY
VALENTIN SILVESTROV - Daniel Hope · Alexey Botvinov
MUSIC FOR UKRAINE - Daniel Hope · Alexey Botvinov
SCHNITTKE - Works for Violin and Piano
Botvinov plays Rachmaninov
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PRESS
World press review
KOLNISCHEN RUNDUSCHAU, 10 October 2006
“Alexey Botvinov is a magnificent pianist”.
TAGES ANZEIGER, Zurich, 5 September 2006
“…performance was so convincingly pure and sincere”.
BASLER ZEITUNG, Basel, 5 September 2006
“Splendid performance!”
Music, a planetary language
Destinations. Ukraine introduces one of the best pianists of our time, Odessa native Alexey Botvinov. Since 2014, every summer Alexey has been hosting the Odessa Classics International Music Festival in his native Odessa, whose popularity has been growing exponentially. Over five incomplete years, Odessa Classics has joined the major league of music festivals in Eastern Europe.
Ukrainian pianist Botvinov sets world record in Berlin.
Prominent Ukrainian musician Alexey Botvinov is the only pianist in the world who has performed Bach's most complicated masterpiece Goldberg Variations 300 times.
The jubilee 300th performance took place in the Berlin Philharmonic chamber music hall on Wednesday evening.
Missa Pacis - world premiere in Odessa
For the first time in Ukraine and around the world heard the music that combines classical traditions of Western Mass, and the elements of piano improvisation. Artists resumed at a concert almost forgotten tradition in the modern classical concert practice. At the same time, the author of the work, Günther Schumacher, was present at the premiere.
