Andrei Korobeinikov took his first piano lessons at the age of five, making his professional recital
debut just three years later. Clearly in possession of a prodigious gift for music, in 2001 he
entered the Moscow’s State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, studying in the class of Professor
Andrei Diev. Upon graduation, he was awarded the unusual honour of “Best Musician of the
Decade”, before going on to obtain a post-graduate performance degree from the Royal
College of Music, London.
Korobeinikov now enjoys a top-level career as a concert pianist, performing with many of
the world’s leading orchestras. Recent and forthcoming concerto highlights include those
with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester
Berlin, Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, Munich Symphony Orchestra,
NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Utah Symphony,
Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Tenerife Symphony
Orchestra, Belgrade Symphony Orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre
Philharmonique de Radio France and Orchestre de Paris...
Amongst those conductors with whom Korobeinikov has made lasting musical partnerships
are Vladimir Ashkenazy, Thierry Fischer, Andris Poga, Jean- Claude Casadesus, Vladimir
Fedoseyev, Iván Fischer, Lawrence Foster, Okko Kamu, Antoni Wit and in the past, Yuri
Temirkanov.
Korobeinikov’s expansive mind and extraordinary musical gifts find a particular balance in
recitals: he has become renowned for his fascinating programming skills, in which poetry
and literature meet music in perfect harmony. In addition, Andreï Korobeinikov is a devoted
chamber musician. His piano trio with Vadim Repin (violin) and Alexander Kniazev (cello) is
widely celebrated, meeting with glowing critical acclaim. He is a close partner of violinists
Vadim Gluzman and Tatiana Samouil, or cellists Pavel Gomiziakov and Johannes Moser. His
chamber music constellations are a regular feature at many of the world’s most prestigious
summer festivals, including the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron, La Folle
Journée de Nantes, Nohant Festival Chopin and the Verbier Festival, Festival Radio France
Occitanie Montpellier amongst others.
Korobeinikov’s discography is a testament to his breadth of repertoire and his unparalleled
interpretative gifts. His recordings have earned numerous awards, including the prestigious
title of Diapason d’Or de l’année. Amongst his output, Korobeinikov recorded the complete
works for solo piano of Scriabin, and Shostakovich’s two piano concerti (the latter with the
Lahti Sinfonia/Okko Kamu, for the Mirare label). As a chamber musician, he made celebrated
recordings with Alexander Kniazev (a Brahms album, on the BayerisherRundfunk label), with
Johannes Moser Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, and recently, Martinu Sonatas for Pentatone.
No stranger to the competition circuit in his youth, Korobeinikov holds more than 20
international prizes Amongst his major victories is First Prize at the Scriabin International
Piano Competition, Moscow (2004).
Alongside his exceptional musical gifts, Korobeinikov possesses an extraordinary mental
curiosity and intellectual appetite. Whilst enrolled at the Moscow Conservatoire, he also
enlisted at the Moscow University of Law, obtaining his Bachelor’s Law Degree at just 17
years of age. In his spare time as a teenager, he went on to publish several academic legal
works, including a much-celebrated text on Intellectual Property law, became a prolific
composer of both music and poetry, and reached fluency in several languages (including
Esperanto).