Alexei Ogrintchouk oboe

Award Winner 2007

Alexei Ogrintchouk is one of the most outstanding oboists performing today and he is still in his twenties. A graduate of the Gnessin School of Music and the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied with Maurice Bourgue, he combines astounding technique with virtuosity and lyricism. Originally from Moscow, Alexei Ogrintchouk was already performing worldwide from the age of 13. He is winner of many competitions including the prestigious International Competition in Geneva and was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2005-07. Alexei Ogrintchouk manages to combine orchestral playing - he has been solo oboist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra since 2005 - with his ever-increasing solo engagements. He has performed concertos with great orchestras of the world including Orchestras of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres, Orchestre de l'Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, all the Orchestras of the BBC, the Moscow Virtuosi, Kremerata Baltica, the Moscow Soloists, Orchestre d'Auvergne, Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, Europa Galante, New European Strings, as well as the Stuttgart, Munich, UBS Verbier and Prague Chamber Orchestras. He recently made his BBC Proms debut, to great critical acclaim, performing the Strauss Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Gennedi Rozhdestvenski. As a recitalist and chamber musician he is much in demand and has performed with Gidon Kremer, Radu Lupu, Thomas Quasthoff, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Bashmet, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Maurice Bourgue, Sarah Chang, Nikolai Znaider, Julian Rachlin, Leif Ove Andsnes, Fabio Biondi, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Maxim Rysanov and Sergio Azzolini among others. His discography includes a Schumann recital disc on Harmonia Mundi, the world premiere of the Beethoven oboe concerto (Raptus Classics), music by Britten (Record One), Skalkotas (BIS) and the Mozart Oboe Concerto with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra (PentaTone Classics).

Photograph taken by Marco Borggreve