Concert Pianist — London

Alexander
Doronin

Piano recitals · Concerto soloist · Chamber & collaborative projects

First Prize & Gold Medal, 7th Hong Kong International Piano Competition (2025). Studies with Professor Dmitri Alexeev at the Royal College of Music, London.

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Biography

Alexander Doronin studied at the Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music with Mikhail Khokhlov (piano) and Olga Martynova (harpsichord) from 2015 to 2021, before moving to London to study at the Royal College of Music as an ABRSM Scholar.

He graduated in 2025 with a First Class Bachelor of Music degree and is now pursuing a Master of Music degree as a Musicians' Company Lambert Scholar, under the guidance of Professor Dmitri Alexeev. In 2025 he won First Prize and the Gold Medal at the 7th Hong Kong International Piano Competition, which brought with it a series of international engagements.

As a soloist he has performed with the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev and the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra, among others, and given recitals across the UK, Austria, Poland, China, Vietnam, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Alongside his solo career, Alexander performs regularly in chamber and collaborative projects.

Education

2021–25Royal College of Music, London — BMus (First Class); currently MMus, with Dmitri Alexeev

2015–21Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music — with Mikhail Khokhlov (piano), Olga Martynova (harpsichord)

Support

London Symphony Orchestra Scholar

Musicians' Company Lambert Scholar

Eileen Rowe Musical Trust

Drake Calleja Trust

Countess of Munster Trust

Honours

Competition prizes

2025 First Prize & Gold Medal, 7th Hong Kong International Piano Competition

2024 Second Prize, International Piano Competition of Lyon

2024 Third Prize, European Piano Competition, Bremen

2019 First Prize, Moscow Piano Open International Competition

2019 Second Prize, Vladimir Krainev International Competition for Young Pianists

Schedule

Upcoming concerts

13 SEP2026

St Mary's, Perivale

London — recital with Julia Blachuta

17 OCT2026

Hong Kong

Bach: Fantasia & Fugue in A minor · Shostakovich: 24 Preludes · Brahms Piano Quintet with the LOGOS Quartet

22 OCT2026

Florence

British Institute of Florence

Programme to be announced

Selected past engagements

2023Piano Recital, Steinway Hall, London (Keyboard Trust)

2023Recital, Leighton House Museum, London

2022Soloist, RCM Symphony Orchestra — Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2

2021Recital, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

—Festival appearances: Chopin Piano Festival (Gaming Abbey, Austria) · Winter Nights on the Amstel (Amsterdam) · Beyond Boundaries Festival (London) · Pianissimo Festival (Moscow / St Petersburg)