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
“Two glorious, fleeting hours! Alexandre Moutouzkine from Russia 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
“…fasten your seatbelt for all future performances.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer
“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