Alexander Hinchev

For an all-Gershwin programme in Sofia on 4 June 2009, Alexander Hinchev appeared as soloist with the Sofia Philharmonic. He studied with Konstantin Ganev at the Music Academy in Sofia and with Vincenzo Vitale at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, and is a laureate of the Busoni competition. His playing has taken him across Europe, the Americas and Japan, in partnerships that included Boris Christoff, Cathy Berberian, the cellist Franco Maggio Ormezowski and the pianist Vovka Ashkenazy, and he has given masterclasses at the Catholic University in Washington and the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples. In 2014 the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture recognised his part in the international celebration of the Christoff centenary.