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Thursday Lunchtime Concert – soprano Aleksandra Dunaeva/pianist Alexander Doronin
2nd March 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Join us for this re-launch of our Thursday Lunchtime Concerts!
Soprano Alexandra Dunaeva and pianist Alexander Doronin present a wonderful vocal and piano programme:
Alexandra made her debut in Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas on stage 3 at the Mariinsky Theatre with the Prantum Integrum orchestra in 2017. From 2018 to 2022 she performed as a soloist at the St Petersburg State Conservatory Opera and Ballet Theatre. In the same year she toured with the Vasilievsky Island Orchestra to European countries (Germany, Holland, France, Belgium). Alexandra won first prize at the Neapolitan Masters competition in Italy and a special award at the International Opera Bella Vocal Competition in Russia. Her operatic roles include Musetta from La Boheme, Adina from L’elisir d’amore, Despina from Così fan tutte, Belinda from Dido and Aeneas and others.
Alexander Doronin was born in 2002 in Yaroslavl, Russia. He started his undergraduate course at the Royal College of Music in September 2021 as an ABRSM Scholar. He is currently studying with Professor Dmitri Alexeev (piano) and Robert Woolley (second study – harpsichord). From 2015 to 2021, Alexander studied at the Gnessin Moscow Special School (College) of Music with Professor Mikhail Khokhlov (piano) and Olga Martynova (harpsichord).
He performed as a soloist with the Russian National Orchestra (Founder & Artistic Director – Mikhail Pletnev), Yaroslavl Philharmonic Orchestra, Voronezh Youth Symphony Orchestra and Omsk Symphony Orchestra. Alexander performed recitals and took part in various concerts in the UK, Austria, Poland, China, Vietnam, Netherlands, Switzerland and in various cities of Russia including the series “YAMAHA Stars” in Sochi (2019), the Loft Philharmonic project, “Summer evenings in Yelabuga”, Kazan (2021) and a piano recital at the Hermitage, Saint-Petersburg (2021).