First Prize at the Moscow Piano Open (2019) and the RCM Concerto Competition (2022). He is a scholar of the London Symphony Orchestra and the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation. Performance Style and Repertoire
: As an ABRSM Scholar at the Royal College of Music (RCM) , he completed his bachelor’s with First Class honors (2025) and is now a master's student under Dmitri Alexeev . Artistic Style and Critical Reception alexander doronin piano
Doronin’s Op. 111 (Beethoven’s final piano sonata) is considered a modern benchmark. He takes the first movement, Maestoso , at a tempo that allows the dissonant crashing chords to breathe like orchestral tuttis. However, it is the second movement, Arietta , that reveals his genius. The transition from the boogie-woogie variation into the trilling, cosmic dissolution is handled with such structural clarity that listeners report feeling "the physical collapse of time." First Prize at the Moscow Piano Open (2019)
If you are exploring his work for the first time, look for his interpretations of: Artistic Style and Critical Reception Doronin’s Op