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Vita...Vita!

Andrei Korobeinikov was born on the 10th of July 1986 in the town of Dolgoprudny in the Moscow region of Russia. Since the age of 5 he plays the piano. Since 1994 till 2006 he has got more than 20 prizes in different national and international competitions. Among them – the I prize at the III Alexander Scriabin International piano competition in Moscow (2004) and the II prize with the Audience prize at the II Sergei Rachmaninov International piano competition in Los Angeles (2005).
See full list of prizes :)
Andrei gave his first professional solo recital at the age of 8 at the Great Hall of the Baku State Academy of Music in Azerbaijan. Since then he's performed concerts in more than 30 countries of the world: in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Uruguay, United States of America, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and in many cities of the Russian Federation. 


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Andrei Korobeinikov was fortunate to perform concerts with such musicians as conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Antoni Wit, Taijiro Iimori, Gintaras Rinkevičius, Olari Elts, John Axelrod, Vakhtang Jordania, Vladimir Ziva, cellists Alexander Kniazev and Henri Demarquette, violinist Dmitri Makhtin, soprano Yana Ivanilova, "Vanbrugh Quartet".
Among other orchestras, Andrei has had pleasure to perform with the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Sypmhony Orchestra (Tokyo), Orchestre National de France, NDR Symphonieorchester, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Lahti, Sinfonia Varsovia, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Camerata Bern and Hong Kong Sinfonietta.
Andrei especially appreciates possibilites for creative collaboration with prominent young musicians, such as conductors Benjamin Ellin, Ilya Gaisin, soprano Sarah Pagin, cellist Nikolay Shugaev, violinist Haik Kazazyan, violists Veit Hertenstein & Sergey Poltavskiy, pianist Pavel Gintov.
During his career Andrei Korobeinikov has appeared in such relevant venues for classical music as Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, Sala Verdi in Milan, Sala Cecília Meireles in Rio de Janeiro, Suntory Hall and Hamarikyu Asahi Hall in Tokyo, Wigmore Hall in London, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Španělský sál in Prague, Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, Béla Bartók National Concert Hall in Budapest and the Great Hall of the Saint-Petersburg Philharmony.
Andrei has performed his concerts at such festivals as La Roque d'Antheron, Festival de Radio France et Montpellier, Festival de musique de Menton and La Folle journée (France), Klarafestival (Belgium), Sommets musicaux de Gstaad (Switzerland), Young Euro Classic (Germany), Art-November, Northern Flowers (Russia) and many others. His performances were broadcast by TV channels Arte, Mezzo, Kultura (Russia) and by such radios as BBC-3, France Musique, NDR Kultur and others. 
 | Andrei Korobeinikov began to take music lessons and play the piano in 1991 at the "Rovesnik" Children School of Music (in the classes of Liudmila Kazieva and Alexander Karpukhin) in Dolgoprudny (region of Moscow), where he was born;
|  | |  | from 1997 until 2001 he studied at the Moscow Regional College of Arts (in the class of Eduard Syomin), from which he graduated with honors;
|  | as well since 1998 Andrei has taken master-classes from pianist Rustem Gainanov;
|  | in 2001 he entered the Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (in the class of Andrei Diev), from which he graduated with honors in June 2006, having received "5+" (maximum of points with the "+") for the final state examination of solo piano recital. Therefore, graduating from the Moscow Conservatoire with honors at the age of 19, Andrei repeated Sergey Rachmaninov's unique achievement of 1892!
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In 2000 he was elected as an all-life member of the San-Marino International Academy of Science in the Art Department.
At the same time, in 1998 (at the age of 12) he entered the law faculty of the European Law University in Moscow, from where he graduated with honours in 2003 as a lawyer specialized in civil law. Andrei has published several articles in Russian law press.
He speaks 3 foreign languages: English, Italian and Esperanto. In his free time Andrei creates his website - www.korobeinikov.com :) 
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