Alyosha Jurinic
Alyosha Jurinic won the International Robert Schumann Competition in 2012, and was a fifth-prize winner of the 2016 Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition and a finalist at the 2015 International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition.
He won the Best Young Musician Award from the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, and is the youngest-ever recipient of the Croatian Ministry of Culture's Vladimir Nazor Award, given annually for highest achievement in the arts.
Mr. Jurinic made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2015 and has performed with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, National Orchestra of Belgium, Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosovo Philharmonic, and others. His festival appearances include Piano Fortissimo in Zagreb, Dubrovnik Summer Festival in Croatia, Kiev Summer Music Evenings, and Serate Musicali in Milan, as well as Chopin festivals in Serbia, France (the George Sand House), and Chopin's birthplace in Poland.
Mr. Jurinic is currently studying with Grigory Gruzman at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar.
His passions include film, TV, pop music, books, fitness, and soccer tactics.
Barbara Hannigan conducts and plays Rossini, Mozart, Ligeti and Fauré
Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart Requiem
Evgeny Kissin plays Schubert and Liszt
Claudio Abbado and Maxim Vengerov, Gypsy