About

Dutch-Russian oboist and conductor Alexei Ogrintchouk is recognized as one of the most inspiring and outstanding musicians of his generation.

Graduated from the Gnessin Music School and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he studied with Maurice Bourgue, Jacques Tys and Jean-Louis Capezzali. Originally from Moscow, he was already performing all over Europe and Japan from the age of 13.

Alexei Ogrintchouk is the winner of a number of international competitions including the prestigious Oboe International Competition in Geneva at the age of 19. He was also the winner of the European Juventus Prize in 1999, two "Victoires de la Musique Classique" Prizes in France in 2002, the Triumph Prize in Russia in 2005 and Borletti Buitini Trust Award winner in 2007. He has been part of the prestigious Rising Stars and BBC New Generation Artists Programmes.

Since August 2005 Alexei Ogrintchouk has been first solo oboist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam. Until then he held the same post at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra - a position which he secured at the age of 20. He combines solo and orchestral playing with conducting and teaching.

A charismatic and technically brilliant soloist, Alexei Ogrintchouk has performed concertos under the baton of conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev, Klaus Mäkelä, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Seiji Ozawa, Fabio Luisi, Kent Nagano, Michel Plasson, Sir Andrew Davis, Daniel Harding, Jiri Belohlavek, Stephan Deneve, Tugan Sokhiev, Lothar Zagrosek, Jaap van Zweden, Andris Nelsons, Susanna Malkki, Gianandrea Noseda, Martyn Brabbins, Michael Sanderling, and has performed with the world's greatest orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestras of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres, Orchestre de l'Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, all the Orchestras of the BBC, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Kontzerthausorchester Berlin, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo, National Orchestra of Belgium, Beethovenhalle Orchestra Bonn, Orchestre National de Lille, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Basel Symphony Orchestra, and many others.

In September 2023 Alexei Ogrintchouk was appointed chief conductor of the Dutch orchestra Phion (Philharmonie Oost Nederland). As a guest conductor he was performing with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Bruxelles Philharmonic, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, the Mariinsky Orchestra, Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano), Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra (Osaka), Orchestre Symphonique Bienne Soleure, HRT Orchestra of Croatian Radio and Television (Zagreb), Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Camerata RCO, Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Geneva Chamber Orchestra and Swedish Chamber Orchestras, and others.

As a recitalist and chamber musician he has performed throughout the world including the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Musikverein Vienna, Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New-York,Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He is also a frequent guest at festivals such as BBC PROMS, Verbier, Luzern, Colmar, Lockenhaus, Berliner Festspiele, Edinburgh Internation Festival, City of London Festival and many others.

His chamber music partners have included Gidon Kremer, Radu Lupu, Thomas Quasthoff, Misha Maisky, Vladimir Spivakov, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Maurice Bourgue, Sarah Chang, Tabea Zimmermann, Nikolai Znaider, Martin Frost, Julian Rachlin, Leif Ove Andsnes, Fabio Biondi, Alexander Lonquich, as well as Belcea, Eben, Sine Nomine and Tokyo string quartets.

Alexei Ogrintchouk was named successor of Maurice Bourgue as oboe professor at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve from September 2011. He also has been a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London (2001-2011), professor at the Musikene in San Sebastian (2009-2011), and at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague since 2010. He is giving number of masterclasses worldwide (Academie Musicale de Villecroze, Encuentro in Santander, Mahler Academy in Ferrara, Pablo Casals Festival and Academy in Prades, Aurora Festival and Academy in Sweden among others).

Alexei Ogrintchouk recorded a number of CDs for BIS, Naxos and Harmonia Mundi with the music by Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Strauss and Skalkottas.

Rodion Shchedrin, Alexander Raskatov and Marc-Andre Dalbavie wrote oboe concertos for Alexei, which he premiered in the past years.