Alexander Poeluev

Winner of the 2002 Coupe Mondiale World Accordion Championships and International Piano Accordion Championship

Alexander Poeluev was born on 12th of January 1981, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. He began to study music at age of six. He studied at I.N.Pilipenko' class at the Children's Music School named after P.Tchaikowsky and graduated from this school in 1996.

In 1996 he entered the Rostov State College of Arts at S.S.Galkin's class and studied there for one year. Since 1997 he continued his study at the Moscow Music College named after A.Schnitke under Professor V.A.Semionov.

During the years of his study Alexander has become two-time winner of the Russia Piano and Button Accordion Competitions in Belgorod. He won the first prize in 1997 and 2000.

In 2002 he won "The 55th Coupe Mondiale World Accordion Championship". Alexander became the first contestant to ever win two categories in the same year - the "Coupe Mondiale World Accordion Championships" and "International Competition for Piano Accordion".

Alexander, a third year student at the Moscow State Music Institute under Viatcheslav Semionov, performs in Russia and other countries, participates in the International Accordion Festivals. His music program includes pieces by Bach, Scarlatti, Couperun, Paganini-Liszt, Tchaikowsky, Grieg, Prokofiev, Semionov, Kusyakov, Piazzolla, Vlasov and other.

As part of his prize for winning the Coupe Mondiale International Piano Accordion class, he won a concert tour to Australia and New Zealand Concert Tour to New Zealand/Australia to perform as Guest Artist at the 2004 South Pacific Accordion Championships in Auckland, New Zealand and at the 2004 Australian International Accordion Championships in Sydney, Australia. Concert Tour to Slovakia/Hungary to perform in Bratislava, Slovakia and Budapest, Hungary in 2003 which included radio and TV appearances.

There is a Celebrity Interview of Alexander Poeluev online now too.

Alexander as the guest artist at the 2003 Coupe Mondiale in Slovakia and Budapest was a tremendous success. He is one of the worlds finest young artists and in he will be touring to the USA in 2004. For concerts that will amaze you, this young man is absolutely tremendous and one of the most exciting Coupe Mondiale winners in recent years. Do not miss any opportunity to hear this exciting young performer.

Email: a_poeluev@mail.ru Moscow, Russia.

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