Having had his CD My Rachmaninoff featured as one of only three highlighted recordings of the composer’s 2023 anniversary year by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Alexander Krichel plays both his Piano Concerto no. 2 (which he previously recorded for Sony with Dresdner Philharmonie) on tour with the NDR Radiophilharmonie and Stanislav Kochanovsky, and his Piano Concerto no. 3 with the Brandenburg State Orchestra and Sebastian Weigle this season.

With International Piano Magazine praising his Ravel solo disc Miroirs as “fit to stand alongside [the performances] of Osborne, Pogorelich and Argerich”, Alexander celebrates the composer’s 150 birthday with performances of his three big solo cycles this season, both at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and for BASF, and of his G Major Concerto with the Brandenburg State Orchestra under Steven Sloane and with Beethoven Orchester Bonn under Dirk Kaftan.

As this season’s Artist in Residence with the Brandenburg State Orchestra he also plays Brahms’ Piano Concerto no. 2 (Dominik Beykirch), Chopin’s Piano Concerto no. 1 (Felix Mildenberger) and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 5 (Anna Skryleva). In addition, the latter sees him return to Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz with Julian Rachlin.

Past seasons have seen the Echo Klassik prize winner perform at venues including the Philharmonie and Konzerthaus in Berlin, Tonhalle Zurich, and both Konzerthaus and Musikverein in Vienna, alongside concert halls in New York City, London, Cape Town, Caracas, Mexico City, Oslo, Warsaw, Bucharest and Tokyo, and with orchestras such as Bamberger Symphoniker, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, Festival Strings Lucerne, Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra and St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra. He has played with conductors including Jonathan Nott, Michael Sanderling, Gabriel Feltz, Georg Fritzsch, Wojciech Rajski, Markus Poschner, Kevin John Edusei, Michael Schønwandt, Andrew Litton and Ruben Gazarian.

He also performs chamber music with artists including violinist Tobias Feldmann, cellist Maximilian Hornung, as well as the Shanghai String Quartet, the Goldmund Quartet, the Amaryllis Quartet, the Minguet Quartett and the String Quartet of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Alexander is artistic director of the “Kultur Rockt” festival, chamber music series “Kammermusik am Hochrhein” and  “Junge Pianisten Elite Solingen”. Since 2018 he has been a permanent jury member of the Fanny Mendelssohn Förderpreis.

Alexander studied in Hannover with Vladimir Krainev and at London’s Royal College of Music with Dmitri Alexeev. Passionate about the performing and visual arts as well as foreign languages, he is involved in projects that give children and young people access to classical music and in hospice charity work in Germany. He was born in Hamburg in 1989.