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Alexandre Dossin - Piano

University of Oregon

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Before joining the University of Oregon music faculty in 2006, Alexandre Dossin was a member of the faculty of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette from 2001–02, and from 2002–06 at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. Dossin's principal teachers were Sergei Dorensky at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and William Race and Gregory Allen at the University of Texas at Austin.

 

In 1997 Dossin was the youngest person ever to receive the prestigious State Award "Ambassador of Rio Grande do Sul" in Brazil, and in 1998 he was the only student in the University of Texas at Austin School of Music to receive the Graduate Pre-Emptive Fellowship.

 

Conductors with whom Dossin has performed include Charles Dutoit, Isaac Karabtchevsky, and Michael Gielen, with orchestras such as the Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Brazilian National Symphony, Mozarteum University Symphony, and Tchaikovsky Conservatory Symphony. Dossin performed numerous live recitals for public radio in Wisconsin and Illinois, including the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago. Dossin has performed in international festivals in Japan, Canada, the United States, and Argentina, in some occasions sharing the stage with Martha Argerich.

 

Critics have called Dossin a "wonderful pianist," "master of contrasts," "master of expressiveness," and “a stunning pianist with a symbiotic relationship with the instrument."

Dossin has four albums released worldwide by Naxos (Verdi-Liszt Paraphrases, Kabalevsky Sonatas, Kabalevsky Preludes and Liszt in Russia) and is an editor for the Schirmer Performance Edition Series (Tchaikovsky The Seasons, Tchaikovsky Album for the Youth, Prokofiev Visions Fugitives, Liszt Consolations and Liebesträume, Rachmaninoff Preludes, vol. 1).

 

Dossin is on the Board of Directors of the American Liszt Society (and president of the Oregon Chapter), College Music Society, and Music Teachers National Association. He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

 

Degrees:

DMA 2001, University of Texas at Austin

MFA 1996, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Russia)

 

Honors: 

First Prize, 2003 Martha Argerich International Piano Competition; Buenos Aires, Argentina

Special Prize, 2003 Martha Argerich International Piano Competition; Buenos Aires, Argentina

Silver Medal, 1996 Maria Callas Grand Prix; Athens, Greece

Second Honorable Mention, 1996 Maria Callas Grand Prix; Athens, Greece

Third Prize, 1995 Mozart International Piano Competition; Salzburg, Austria

Special Prize, 1995 Mozart International Piano Competition; Salzburg, Austria

"Ambassador of Rio Grande do Sul" state award, 1997; Brazil

Graduate Pre-Emptive Fellowship, 1998; University of Texas at Austin
 

 

Selected Discography: 

  • S. Rachmaninoff: Preludes, op. 3/2 and op. 23 (Schirmer Performance Editions, 2012)

  • Liszt: Russian Transcriptions (Naxos, 2012)

  • Liszt: His Life & Music (Naxos, 2011, disc 2, track 3 - Rigoletto)

  • Liszt - (Abril Coleções)

  • Liszt: Consolations and Liebesträume (Schirmer Performance Editions)

  • Prokofiev: Visions Fugitives. op. 22 (Schirmer Performance Editions)

  • P. Tchaikovsky: Album for the Young, op. 39 (Schirmer Performance Editions)

  • P. Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, op. 37b (Schirmer Performance Editions, 2009)

  • Autumn Moods and Images - Chamber Music by David Bernstein

  • Kabalevsky - Complete Preludes (Naxos, 2009)

  • Kabalevsky - Complete Sonatas and Sonatinas (Naxos, 2009)

  • Verdi-Liszt Paraphrases - Naxos (2007)

  • A Touch of Brazil - Blue Griffin (2005)

  • Danielle Martin Memorial Concert: Vol II - Disc 2, Track 7: Dumka, Op. 59, Piotr IlyichTchaikovsky (2004)

  • Alexandre Dossin Piano Recital - MSR Classics (2002) 

  • S. Rachmaninoff: Preludes, op. 32 (Schirmer Performance Editions, 2013

 

Selected Publications: 

  • S. Rachmaninoff: Preludes, op. 3/2 and op. 23 (Schirmer Performance Editions, 2012)

  • Liszt: Consolations and Liebesträume (Schirmer Performance Editions)

  • Prokofiev: Visions Fugitives. op. 22 (Schirmer Performance Editions)

  • P. Tchaikovsky: Album for the Young, op. 39 (Schirmer Performance Editions)

  • P. Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, op. 37b (Schirmer Performance Editions, 2009)

 

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