Piano lessons Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Inner West, CBD City – Alexey Koltakov

Alexey Koltakov is a prize winner of many competitions, such as Horowitz competition (Ukraine), Krainev competition (Ukraine), Hilton Head competition (USA), San Antonio competition (USA), Murray Dranoff two piano competition (USA), and Van Cliburn competition (finalist, USA). Koltakov’s performances took him around the world: Ukraine, Russia, Germany, France, England, Israel, Australia, USA, Mexico, Korea and Malaysia. Alexey played with major orchestras such as Las Colinas Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Mississippi Symphony, Hilton Head Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Mexico City Philharmonic, National Philharmonic of Ukraine, and East-West Philharmonic (Australia).

Featured in Playing on the Edge, the Peabody award-winning documentary on the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition which premiered on PBS stations across the United States beginning in the fall of 2001, Alexey also appears in the PBS Concerto series which showcases his Final Round Cliburn Competition performances with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and Maestro James Conlon.

Alexey received his Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard School in 2012 and his Master of Music (from the same school) in 2014. Alexey studied with Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky. On top of all the performances and competitions, Alexey has extensive experience in teaching – more than 18 years. Alexey teaches students of all ages, and helps them to prepare for performances, competitions, or just to learn music for pleasure.

Press Acclaim:

“We’re so used to pompous, sentimentalized Rachmaninoff that we tend to forget the composer’s own very different style of piano playing, which had a quicksilver brilliance…Mr. Koltakov came closer to the music’s heart than most concert pianists these days.”
–Scott Cantrell, The Dallas Morning News

“No one who heard pianist Alexey Koltakov is likely to forget this young man…It brought to mind some of the legendary performances of the past, when showmanship and artistry often mixed. People loved seeing Artur Rubinstein throw his hands high up in the air in de Falla’s “Ritual Fire Dance”. Or, as pianist and writer Charles Rosen has noted, audience members would stand on their seats to watch the young Horowitz rip through the octaves in the Tchaikovsky piano concerto.”
–Joanne Sheehy Hoover, The Journal

“The opening notes of Brahms’ Variations on a Theme of Paganini announced a pianist of major talent, gifted with power, range and a distinctive, unmistakably Slavic imagination.”
–Wayne Lee Gay, Star-Telegram

Alexey is available to teach students of all levels in the comfort of their homes in the following suburbs of Sydney:

City CBD, Forrestville, Killarney Heights, Lindfield, Roseville, Chatswood, Macquarie Park, Eastwood, Epping, North Ryde, Ryde, West Ryde, Lane Cove, Artarmon, Northbridge, Cremorne, Mosman, Manly, Neutral Bay, North Sydney, Waverton, Wollstonecraft, St. Leonards, Drummoyne, Balmain, Pyrmont, Rozelle, Leichhardt, Ashfield, Burwood, Strathfield, Croydon Park, Lewishem, Petersham, Enmore, Newtown, Redfern, Waterloo, Marrickville, Wolli Creek, Kinsgrove, Beverley Hills, Riverwood, Padstow, Penshurst, Hurstville, Kogarah, Mascot, Botany, Maroubra, Coogee, Rosebery, Kensington, Randwick, Clovelly, Bronte, Tamarama, Bondi, Waverley, Centennial Park, Moore Park, Woollahra, Paddington, Edgecliff, Darlinghurst, Darling Point, Double Bay, Belleview Hills, Rose Bay, Dover Heights, Vaucluse, Watsons Bay