Alexei Melnikov opens the 55th Concert Season organised by GIA – Giovani Interpreti Associati in Brescia, on Saturday 17 October 2026 at the Auditorium San Barnaba.
Alexei Melnikov opens the 55th Concert Season organised by GIA – Giovani Interpreti Associati in Brescia, on Saturday 17 October 2026 at the Auditorium San Barnaba.
The Russian pianist, bronze medallist at the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition, brings a recital whose first half sets a selection from Tchaikovsky’s 18 Pieces op. 72 alongside Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, before closing with Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
Alexei Melnikov is represented in Italy and Europe by Mimesis Artist Management.
From Moscow to the world’s greatest stages
Born in Moscow in 1990, he trained at the Gnessin School and at the Moscow Conservatory, in the class of Sergei Dorensky. Besides his Tchaikovsky medal, he won first prize at the San Marino International Piano Competition in 2014 and third prize at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in 2015. In 2017 the First Great Award at the Manhattan International Music Competition opened the doors of Carnegie Hall, where he gave a recital.
He has played in halls such as the Mariinsky Concert Hall, the Salle Cortot in Paris, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, under conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Vasily Petrenko and Vladimir Spivakov.
