British pianist ALEXANDER ULLMAN, acclaimed for his exquisite interpretations and fine technique, has impressed audiences and critics worldwide with his deep understanding of music, his elegant pianistic touch and his graceful phrasing. Recent appearances include his debut recital at Wigmore Hall, concerts with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta conducted by Ola Rudner and with the Brno Philharmonic and the Sofia Philharmonic conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, and appearances at the Ruhr Piano Festival, debut with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra and recitals in Germany (Munich, Bayreuth, Weimar, Berlin), Austria (Liszt Festival), Hungary (Liszt Academy, Budapest), the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, Georgia, Mexico, South Korea (Seoul Arts Centre) and the UK. In the 2022/23 season, he made his debut at the Wiener Musikverein with the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Lower Austria under the baton of Hans Graf, and performed with the Southwest German Radio (SWR) Symphony Orchestra under Joseph Bastian, the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra with Julian Rachlin, and the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra with Jonathan Bloxham. He has presented recitals at the Heidelberg Spring Festival as well as in India, Colombia and in Germany with Julia Hagen. His first album, released on Rubicon in 2019, includes Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, Six Pieces from Prokofiev’s Cinderella, and Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Firebird Suites. In 2022, the label released a second album of works by Franz Liszt, his Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Andrew Litton and the Piano Sonata in B Minor.
Winner of the 2017 International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, Alexander Ullman has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Budapest Radio Orchestra and the Korean Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the New Jersey, Fort Worth and Montreal Symphony Orchestras, conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy, Giancarlo Guerrero, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Valentin Uryupin and Cristian Măcelaru. In the 2017/2018 season he closed the Lille Piano Festival with Orchestre de Picardie under Jean-Claude Casadesus. He has performed at Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall (London), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Gewandhaus (Leipzig), the Kimmel Center (Philadelphia), the Kennedy Center (Washington), and the Seoul Center for the Arts, Centre for Oriental Arts in Shanghai and the NCPA (National Centre for Performing Arts) in Beijing, and has appeared in the Nottingham and Oxford International Piano Series, on BBC Radio 3, France Musique and MDR Klassik. His chamber performances include appearances at the Prussia Cove International Music Seminar (UK), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festivals (Germany), Pablo Casals in Prades (France) and La Jolla Summer Festival (USA), with artists such as the Dover Quartet, violinists Barnabas Kelemen and Alexei Semenenko and cellist Michael Petrov.
He first attracted international attention in 2011 when he won the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in Budapest. From 2014 to 2017 he was represented by the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT). Born in London in 1991, he studied at the Purcell School, Curtis Institute and the Royal College of Music, graduating in 2017 as a Benjamin Britten Piano Fellow (Philip Lubzer Foundation Scholarship). His teachers have included William Fong, Leon Fleisher, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Robert MacDonald, Dmitri Alexeev, Ian Jones and Eliso Virsaladze.