Alexey Botvinov

Pianist Alexey Botvinov specializes in Bach and Rachmaninov, performs in ballet productions, and pursues novel ways of presenting classical music involving fusions of music with theater, dance, and even light shows. He is also the founder and artistic director of the Odessa Classics festival. Botvinov was born on September 8, 1964, in Odesa (Odessa), Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. He studied the piano with Serafima Mogilevskaya and then at the Odessa Conservatory with Alexander Kardaschew. From 1987 to 1989, he moved to the Moscow Conservatory, studying with Vera Gor...