Acclaim

“…Moutouzkine played Brahms’ Op. 117 Intermezzi more beautifully, more movingly than I’ve ever heard them. At once sad, tender and noble, this was playing of heart-stopping intimacy and elegance…” – Dallas Morning News

“…grandly organic, with many personal and pertinent insights, offering a thoughtful balance between rhetoric and fantasy…technically dazzling.” – International Piano Magazine

“Remember his name…[Alexandre Moutouzkine is] poised to join the pantheon of greats…powerful when needed, exquisitely tender in romantic passages…breathtaking arpeggios… sheer poetry… Moutouzkine performed [a] heart-wrenchingly beautiful cadenza with soul, heart, and mastery… Had we, the audience, ever really heard the ‘Rach 3’ before? Or been so intensely moved and involved before? The simple answer is ‘No, we had not.’ Moutouzkine outperformed even the composer himself. Elegant, emotional and virtuosic, his was a performance to be treasured by an artist of true genius. Of the concert, a friend, a life-long music lover, said it was ‘the best she had ever attended.’ That sentiment was echoed by the audience, and by this reviewer.” – Greenwich Citizen

“Few pianists can play the Rachmaninoff third piano concerto because of its demands on technique, concentration and endurance. Moutouzkine transcended these demands with intellectual clarity. He was able to articulate connections within the work that few manage to consider simply because they are busy with the notes themselves…the explosive technical command during the final pages of the work left us in awe…amazingly super-charged, virtuosic…” – Connecticut Post

“…fasten your seatbelt for all future performances.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Two glorious, fleeting hours! Alexandre Moutouzkine took command of the stage…and presented a program of refined and unsurpassed quality…Moutouzkine possesses an enormously large and natural technique, he uses it wisely and solely for the purpose of making great music.” – The Newberry Observer

“The concert felt like the beginning of a career that will matter…Moutouzkine’s kind of talent has an impact on his surroundings…His technique is crisp, his sonority bright and clean, giving clarity to his musical choices, but heat to the conviction behind them…Moutouzkine made each [of Scriabin’s Etudes, Op. 8] a glimpse into a larger individual world…Moutouzkine maintained an honest clarity that let you feel the fissures in the piece’s emotional foundation. His soft playing wasn’t just pretty, it was deep…” – The Philadelphia Inquirer

“…sprightly and at the same time astonishingly inspired…Moutouzkine performed not only with mastery, but also with magnificent brilliance and energy…” – Daily News, Russia

“Moutouzkine attacked the piece in a way that left the audience spellbound… Moutouzkine’s delicate handling of the piece along with his extremely accurate, yet emotional interpretation left many of the audience members in tears.” – The Maroon

“Moutouzkine…elicit[ed] a fully orchestral palette from his keyboard…he is one of those pianists whose command is so natural and comfortable there seems to be no space between player and instrument.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer

“I look for musical eloquence and personality, and I ask myself if there is something that moves me about [a] performance. Alexander had this, the quality that I call poetry on the piano.” – Times Picayune

“But how lovingly, how tenderly he caressed the lyric music, sometimes stretching the pulse quite daringly, and the scherzo glittered with myriad felicities of touch and taper.” – Dallas Morning News

“…everything in [Moutouzkine’s] Brahms betokened thought and dedication, and key phrases were lovingly turned.” – Dallas Morning News

“The most impressive quality in Moutouzkine’s playing, for me at least, was the beauty of tone he extracts from this presumed ‘percussion instrument.’ Never once, in even the loudest passages, was there an ugly moment.” – Spokesman.com

“Pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine gave his Florida debut…and what a performance it was. We heard passion, intensity, virtuosity, control, style, maturity – everything one could ask for in a recital, and all from a man of only 22.” – Palm Beach Daily News