Alexander Kobrin, Gold Medalist, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, plays on the concert.
BBC Russia named Alexander Kobrin the "Van Cliburn of today," putting him in the front row of musicians of his generation. Internationally acclaimed pianist Alexander Kobrin was born in 1980 in Moscow, Russia. He began playing the piano at the age of 5 and in the same year he was enrolled in the world-famous Gnessin Special School of Music. He completed his studies there with professor Tatiana Zelikman, and went on to further his skills at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire with professor Lev Naumov, completing his post-graduate studies when he was 25.