The Pushkin House Music Festival launched in January 2020, under the directorship of Pushkin House’s music curator Alexander Karpeyev, an extension of the Pushkin House Music Salons which profile and present chamber music and works by Russian and Soviet composers, including many lesser-known works that are rarely heard in western concert halls or even recordings.
Alexander Karpeyev, Festival Director
Alexander Karpeyev is a London-based Russian pianist, who has performed throughout the UK and Europe and toured in the USA, Canada and Russia as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. Alexander trained at the Moscow Conservatory and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. In 2014 he completed a performance practice doctoral degree at the City University, based on the Edna Iles Medtner Collection in the British Library. Alexander devotes considerable time to promoting Russian music in London. He was first to organise Medtner festivals in the UK (in 2014, 2016 and 2017) as well as the first English-speaking conference dedicated to Medtner (British Library, 2016). Alexander was awarded the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Silver Medal and featured as ‘One to watch’ in International Piano magazine. He has recorded for Claudio Records, SOMM Recordings and Chandos Records. Alexander has been music curator at Pushkin House since 2016.
FESTIVAL DIRECTOR
Alexander Karpeyev
ADVISORY BOARD
William Conner
Julie Anne Sadie Goode
PATRONS
Nikolay Lugansky
† Lady Solti
Bob & Elisabeth Boas
