Alexander Korsantia

Alexander Korsantia performs across the world, collaborating with artists such as Valeri Gergiev, Christoff Eshenbach, Paavo Jarvi, Gianandrea Noseda, Yuri Bashmet, Vadim Repin, Jerusalem Quartet and Sakari Oramo.

Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Korsantia moved to U.S.A. in 1992, to study with Alexander Toradze at Indiana University.

He won First Prize at the Rubinstein Competition and First Prize at Sydney International Piano Competition. In 1999 he was awarded the medal of Honor, for his contribution to Georgian Arts.

His forthcoming engagements include a televised performance of Rachmaninov’s Third Concerto in St. Petersburg, Stresa Festival, RAI Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, Gilmore Festival, Tour of Italy with Georgian State Symphony, Bogota Symphony in France and Italy, with Kirov Orchestra and Valeri Gergiev, Birmingham Symphony with Sakari Oramo, Bournemouth Symphony, Israel Chamber Orchestra and a Recital in Cleveland with violinist Vadim Repin.

A very important part of his schedule is in his homeland Georgia.

In 2003 Georgian National TV released a full-length documentary about him. In 2004 he was invited to the inauguration President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili.

Korsantia is a professor at the New England Conservatory in Boston since 2003.

Jury Members

Marcello Abbado

Guido Agosti

Martha Argerich

Sulamita Aronovsky

Zvi Avni

Sergei Babayan

Arthur Balsman

Joseph Banowetz

Hui-Qiao Bao

Josef Bardanashvili

Enrique Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim

Dimitri Bashkirov

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Boris Berman

Lazar Berman

Michel Beroff

Andrea Bonatta

Yefim Bronfman

Yefim Bronfman

Yefim Bronfman

Yefim Bronfman

Michael Bugoslavsky

Hung-Kuan Chen

Pierre Colombo

Peter Cossé

Halina Czerny-Stefanska

Michel Dalberto

Jose de Sequeira Costa

Noel do Carmo Flores

Peter Donohoe

François-René Duchâble

Thomas Duis

Carsten Durer

Akiko Ebi

Jan Ekier

Dean Elder

Taiseer Elias

Christopher Elton

Martin Engstroem

Jacques Fevrier

Janina Fialkowska

Marian Filar

Rudolf Firkusny

Leon Fleischer

Ian Fountain

Claude Frank

Peter Frankl

Orazio Frugoni

Henri Gagnebin

Valentin Gheorghiu

Pavel Gililov

Bernd Goetzke

Hans Graf

Gary Graffman

Zhou Guangren

Andre Hajdu

Ian Hobson

Akiko Iguchi

Eugen Indjic

Eugene Istomin

Andrzej Jasinski

Karl Heinz Kaemmerling

Joachim Kaiser

Yoheved Kaplinsky

Mindru Katz

Daejin Kim

Irving Kolodin

Vladimir Krajnev

Emanuel Krasovsky

Tomer Lev

Robert Levin

John Lill

Eugene List

Jerome Lowenthal

Nikita Magaloff

André-François Marescotti

Victor Merzhanov

Ella Milch-Sheriff

Li Ming-Qiang

Gyorgy Nador

Hiroko Nakamura

Émile Naoumoff

Lev Naumov

Marlos Nobre

John O’Conor

Ronan O’Hora

Noriko Ogawa

Gerhard Oppitz

Cecile Ousset

Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov

Piotr Paleczny

Sergio Perticaroli

Pierre Petit

Nikolai Petrov

Ewa Poblocka

Robert Ponsonby

Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron

Awadagin Pratt

Menahem PRESSLER

Matti Raekallio

Yoni Rechter

Mendi Rodan

Arthur Rubinstein

Pnina Salzman

György Sándor

Hans Ulrich Schmid

Harold Schonberg

Uri Segal

Craig Sheppard

Soo-Jung Shin

Michal Smoira-Cohn

Dang Thai Son

Takahiro Sonoda

Joaquin Soriano

Hugo Steurer

Gordon Stewart

Josef Tal

Alexander Tamir

Alexander Tansman

Kiri Janette Te Kanawa

Maria Tipo

Arie VARDI, Chair

Tamás Vásáry

Ilona Vincze-Kraus

Eliso Virsaladze

Lev Vlasenko

Mikhail Voskressensky

Xiaohan Wang

Fanny Waterman

Dieter Weber

Alexis Weissenberg

Ramzi Yassa

Dina Yoffe

Asaf Zohar

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