THE ARTIST

Aleksandr Bolotin

Aleksandr Bolotin was born in St Petersburg in 2000. He graduated from the Secondary Special Music School of the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Alexander Sandler). From 2018 to 2020 he continued his studies with the same teacher at the conservatory itself. Has participated in masterclasses held by Dmitri Bashkirov, Efrem Briskin, Alexander Braginsky, Pavel Nersessian, Miroslav Kultyshev, Alexander Kobrin, Anthony Newman, Matthew Cameron, Philippe Giusiano and Anna Malikova. Since 2021 the artist has been a student at the Manhattan School of Music (initially under the guidance of Arkady Aronov, and since 2023 he has been perfecting his skills in the class of Inessa Sinkevich). In 2015 Aleksandr Bolotin was awarded the Path to Scriabin scholarship, in 2017 – the A.P. Petrov Scholarship from the St Petersburg City Government, and in 2023 – the Arthur Balsam and Viola Markus scholarships.