In 2019, at the age of 22, Alexandre Kantorow became the first French pianist to win the gold medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition, as well as the Grand Prix, awarded only three times before in the competition’s history. He has been hailed by critics as ‘the reincarna tion of Liszt’ (Fanfare), and in September 2023 he became the youngest and first French winner of the Gilmore Artist Award, one of the most prestigious and important American and international music prizes, awarded every four years. Alexandre Kantorow has appeared with some of the world’s greatest conductors.

In recent years these have included Manfred Honeck with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the BBC Proms in London, John Eliot Gardiner with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Valery Gergiev with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and Iván Fischer with the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

Alexandre Kantorow has also performed on prestigious international tours with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Jaap van Zweden, as well as with the Orchestre National de France and Cristian Măcelaru. In recital he performs in the greatest concert halls such as Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (Master Pianists series), the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Philharmonie in Paris, Bozar in Brussel, London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall and the Tokyo City Opera, and at the most prestigious festivals including La Roque d’Anthéron, the Ravinia Festival, the Verbier Festival and the Klavier-Festival Ruhr. Chamber music is also one of his great pleasures. Alexandre Kantorow studied with Pierre-Alain Volondat, Igor Lazko, Frank Braley and Rena Shereshevskaya.