British-ukranian pianist Alexey Grynyuk, at home in the classical repertoire as well as the romantic and 20th-century repertoire, has been described by the Parisian Le Figaro as a master of the perfect crystalline and pure touch... with an amazing personal touch and absolute transcendental virtuosity.
He has performed on the stages of the most renowned concert halls in the world such as: Wigmore Hall and South Bank Center in London, Salle Cortot and Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and many other halls in Europe, USA, Mexico, Japan, South Korea and Morocco.
Enthusiastically acclaimed by the London music magazine Musical Opinion for his technical excellence and top-class musicianship, Griniuk has been invited to participate in such prestigious festivals as Cervantino (Mexico), the Chopin Festival in Poland, Kremlin Music (Moscow), Musica Sacra (Maastricht), the New Port Festival (Rhode Island) and the Mannes College International Piano Festival (New York). His performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Hessicher Radio (Frankfurt), Bayreuth Radio, Radio France, as well as on the televisions of Ukraine, Russia and China.
Upcoming highlights in the current season are recitals at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, a tour in Lithuania, a return to the New Port Festival, chamber music concerts at the West Cork Festival in Ireland, as well as concerts in Poland with the Krakow Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. His last season's success was a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Concerto, which The Worthing Herald described as magical.
„His allegro at the beginning was so elegant and vigorous that I could feel the audience wanting to applaud wildly, breaking with all established practice. Grinyuk's fingers produced fireworks in the fast passages, but he also demonstrated precise control in the slow moments.“
Alexey started playing the piano at the age of 6. He studied with Valery Kozlov at the Kyiv Conservatoire before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied with Hamish Milne.
After the first prize named after Sergei Diaghilev, which Alexey won at the age of 13 at the All-People's Competition in Moscow, he received a series of prizes at international piano competitions, among the most significant being First Prize at the Vladimir Horowitz Competition in Kiev and at competition in Shanghai (China).
„Divine purity galore... he captivates the audience with his immense musical talent... crystal clear and beautiful tone retrieval... a beautifully structured, respectful performance.“ (Coll. Chopin, Tokyo).