Andrei Korobeinikov: Concerts & life

large tour in Japan (February-March), organised by a prominent esperantist Kazuko Kikushima and the AK-AK (Amikara Klubo de Andrei Korobeinikov - Andrei Korobeinikov's Friends' Club in Japan). Besides 9 public concerts, there were special recitals at the closed hospitals and schools for children and adult persons with mental deseases. Also the whole tour was non-profit, the income from the concerts was also used to support organizations for blind people in Japan. The recital at the Hamarikyu Asahi Hall in Tokyo was recorded and later the "AK-AK" has released a CD, which is also available for purchase.

debut concert at the Great Hall of the Saint-Petersburg Philharmony with Mikhail Snitko & Saint-Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra. The performance was recorded and a released CD is available for purchase.

recording of the Elegy for piano & string orchestra by Alla Pavlova with Vladimir Ziva & Tchaikovsky symphony orchestra of the Moscow radio for Naxos.

fantastic opportunity to perform a debut recital at the 26th "La Roque d'Anthéron" piano festival, replacing famous pianist Ivo Pogorelich.

graduating from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire with the highest possible distinction for the piano solo recital ("5+"). This happened in June 2006, at Andrei's age of 19, so he achieved the same and rare result as 19-year-old Sergei Rachmaninov in 1892.

great opportunity to study as a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Music in London (in the class of Prof. Vanessa Latarche), which was made possible by a scholarship of Gill and Julian Simmonds, won by Andrei in May 2006. Thanks to studying at the RCM in London, Andrei has won several competitions that gave him possibility to play recitals and concertos in 2007-2008 in England.

in 2006 Andrei performed in Russia, Italy, Japan, Costa Rica, Portugal, France, Germany and Great Britain.

final state examinations of solo piano recital, chamber ensemble & piano accompaniment at the Moscow State P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (Beethoven, Scriabin, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Pergolesi, Verdi, Mahler)

rare and the highest possible mark "5+" given by the State Examinating Commission for the final solo recital at the Moscow Conservatoire

graduating from the Moscow Conservatoire as a pianist with the highest distinction at age of 19 - a rare result, achieved also by Sergei Rachmaninov as a pianist and composer in 1892

perfomance at the Scriabin Memorial Museum in Moscow (solo & in a duo with violinist Alena Baeva and pianist Pavel Gintov)

performances at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire within the 2006' graduates' festive concerts - solo & with Haik Kazazyan (violin), Alexander Buzlov (cello) and Anna Viktorova (soprano)

performances in Yelnya (the Smolensk region of Russia) and at the Rachmaninov hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, dedicated to Moscow conservatoire's musicians dead in the World War II

performances at the British Embassy (solo) and the "Spaso House" (with violinist Haik Kazazyan) in Moscow

recording of the Elegy for piano & string orchestra by Alla Pavlova with Vladimir Ziva and Tchaikovsky symphony orchestra of the Moscow radio for Naxos

recital with Alla Ablaberdyeva (soprano) in Kolomna

Gill & Julian Simmonds' Scholarship for a postgraduate course at the Royal College of Music in London

2nd prize at the "Vendôme prize" international piano competition in Lisbon, Portugal

different performances organised by esperantists at the 90th Universal Esperanto Congress in Florence, 10th "Rencontres internationales d'Espéranto" in Plouézec (France) and also in Ancona (Italy)

moving to London to study as a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Music thanks to a scholarship given by Gill and Julian Simmonds

performance of the Shostakovich's piano concerto no.1 op.35 at Ramenskoye (Russia) with friends from the Moscow Conservatoire

first place in the Royal College of Music's concerto competiton, which gave a fantastic opportunity to perform the Rachmaninov's piano concerto no.2 op.18 with Vladimir Ashkenazy in 2007 at the RCM's Concert hall in London

victory at the Jaques Samuel annual intercollegiate piano competition, which gave an opportunity to perform a solo recital at the Wigmore hall in London in October 2007

chamber recitals in Leinfelden & Esslingen am Neckar (Germany) and Clermont-Ferrand (France)

recital at the Gubkin College of Music, where Andrei had played in 1993 one of his first solo recitals in life