Alexei Ogrintchouk is one of the most outstanding oboists performing today. A graduate of the Gnesins’ School of Music and the Paris Conservatoire where he studied with Maurice Bourgue, Jacques Tys and Jean-Louis Capezzali, he combines astounding technique with virtuoso skill and lyricism.

Originally from Moscow, Alexei was already performing all over Russia, Europe and Japan from the age of thirteen. He has been the winner of a number of international competitions including the prestigious CIEM International Competition in Geneva at the age of nineteen. He was also the winner of the European Juventus Prize in 1999, a recipient of two Victoires de la Musique Classique prizes in France in 2002, the Triumph prize in Russia in 2005 and a Borletti Buitoni 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 in Amsterdam under Mariss Jansons. Prior to that, he held the same post at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Valery Gergiev – a position which he secured at the age of twenty.

Alexei Ogrintchouk manages to combine orchestral playing with his ever-increasing solo engagements. A charismatic and technically brilliant soloist, he has performed concerts under the baton of such conductors as Mariss Jansons, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Seiji Ozawa, Fabio Luisi, Kent Nagano, Michel Plasson, Sir Andrew Davis, Roman Kofman, Daniel Harding, Jiří Bělohlávek, Stephan Denève, Lothar Zagrosek, Jaap van Zweden, John Neschling, Andris Nelsons, Susanna Mälkki, Walter Weller, Ion Marin, Lü Jia, Gianandrea Noseda, Hubert Soudant, Martyn Brabbins, Thomas Sanderling, Kees Bakels and Enrique Mazzola and with the world’s greatest orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the orchestras of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres, the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, all the BBC orchestras, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, the Orchestre National de Belgique, the Beethovenhalle Orchestra Bonn, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic, the MAV Orchestra Budapest, Dutch Radio Kamer Filharmonie, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Moscow Virtuosi, the Kremerata Baltica, the Moscow Soloists, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Orchestre d’Auvergne, the Europa Galante orchestra, the Cologne Sinfonietta, the New European Strings and the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla as well as the Concertgebouw, Munich, Stuttgart, Mito, Prague, UBS Verbier, Lithuanian and Swedish Chamber Orchestras. As a recitalist and chamber musician he is much in demand and has performed throughout the world including appearances at the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Cité de la Musique, the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Royal Albert Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New-York, the Auditorium in Tel Aviv and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He is also a frequent guest at festivals such as the BBC Proms, MIDEM, Colmar, Lockenhaus, Verbier, Luzern, the Berliner Festspiele, Santa Cecilia, Cortona, the Edinburgh International Festival, the City of London Festival and the White Nights, Crescendo, Svyatoslav Richter December Nights and Easter Festival in Russia.

His chamber music partners have included Gidon Kremer, Radu Lupu, Thomas Quasthoff, Mischa Maisky, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Bashmet, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Maurice Bourgue, Sarah Chang, Tabea Zimmermann, Nikolaj Znaider, Valery Afanassiev, Julian Rachlin, Leif Ove Andsnes, Fabio Biondi, Alexander Lonquich, Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Sergio Azzolini as well as the Belcea, Ebène, Sine Nomine and Tokyo String Quartets.

Alexei Ogrintchouk was named successor to Maurice Bourgue as oboe professor at the Haute École de Musique de Genève in September 2011. He has also been a guest professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London since 2001 and a professor at the Musikene in San Sebastian since 2009 and at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague since 2010. He is giving a number of master-classes at the Pablo Casals Chamber Music Academy in Prades, the Mahler Academy in Ferrara, the Cursos de Verano in Bilbao, the Académie Musicale de Villecroze and the Weimar International Master-Class.

His first CD featuring works by Schumann was released as part of harmonia mundi’s Les Nouveaux musiciens series to exceptional reviews. His discography includes the world premiere of the slow movement of Beethoven’s oboe concerto (Raptus classics), music by Britten (Record One), Skalkottas (Bis Records) and Mozart’s Oboe Concerto with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra (PentaTone Classics). He also recently released the Bach Oboe Concerti with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra (Bis Records).