University of Florida Performing Arts

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Program
Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102 - Schumann
   Vanitas vanitatum mit Humor      
   Langsam
   Nicht Schnell mit viel Ton zu spilen
   Nicht zu Rasch
   Starck und markirt
Sonata in A Minor (Arpeggione), D. 821 - Schubert
Sonata in A Major, M. 8 - Franck

About Alexandre Bouzlov
Russian cellist Alexandre Bouzlov has “a huge capacity to make the instrument sing,” wrote The New York Times.  Having just captured the Silver Medal, the MICEX Prize for the best performance of a Tchaikovsky work, and the Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich Foundation Prize at the 13th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Mr. Bouzlov is a favorite of competition juries, critics, and audiences alike.  He won First Prize and the Audience Prize at the 35th “Jeunesse Musicale” International Cello Competition in Belgrade in 2005, as well as Second Prize in the 54th International Competition of the ARD in 2005.  As winner of the 2004 Guzik Foundation Career Grant, Mr. Bouzlov toured the United States as soloist with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra conducted by Constantine Orbelian in February 2005, a tour which included his Carnegie Hall debut. 

In July 2007, Mr. Bouzlov appeared as soloist with the Utah Symphony conducted by Keith Lockhart in Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C Major.  His 2007-2008 season in the United States also included performances as soloist with the West Shore Symphony (Michigan), and recitals at Boise State University and at the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts (Michigan).  He has appeared as soloist with Russian orchestras including the Mariinsky Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev, Moscow Virtuosi conducted by Vladimir Spivakov, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexandre Vedernikov, the Ulianovsk Symphony, the Saratov Symphony, the Kaliningrad Philharmonic and the Yaroslavl Philharmonic.  In the United States he has appeared with the Mobile, Champaign-Urbana, West Shore (Michigan) and Johnson City (Tennessee) Symphonies and the Boise Philharmonic. 

As winner of the 2000 Young Concert Artists European Auditions in Leipzig and the 2001 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, Mr. Bouzlov gave debut recitals in New York at the 92nd Street Y, sponsored by the Claire Tow Debut Prize; in Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center; and in Boston at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.  He also made his Lincoln Center debut through YCA in May 2005, performing Lalo’s Cello Concerto with Leonard Slatkin conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.

Mr. Bouzlov was awarded the Leyda Unger Prize at the 2004 Pablo Casals International Cello Competition in Kronberg, Germany.  Mr. Bouzlov was awarded First Prize in the 2000 New Names Foundation Competition in Moscow, which resulted in performances at the Barbican Centre in London, in the Czech Republic, France, Switzerland, Macedonia, Norway, Belgium, Austria, Israel, Scotland, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia.  The New Names Foundation awarded Mr. Bouzlov with an additional special Talent Prize in 2003.  His other awards include First Prizes in the 1997 “Virtuosos of the 21st Century” Competition in St. Petersburg and the 1996 Mozart Competition in Monte Carlo. 

Alexandre Bouzlov was born in Moscow and began cello studies at the age of six.  At the age of 14, he was invited to perform at Mstislav Rostropovich’s 70th birthday concert and participated in the Second International Cello Congress in St. Petersburg.  A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, where he worked with Natalya Gutman, Mr. Bouzlov is currently enrolled in the Conservatory’s postgraduate program.

Young Concert Artists, Inc. was founded in 1961 as a non-profit organization to discover and launch the careers of extraordinary young musicians.  Many of today’s greatest performers started their careers with Young Concert Artists including Emanuel Ax, Eugenia Zukerman, Chee-Yun, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet.  The UFPA 2008-09 Season includes performances by two other Young Concert Artists, Robert Belini? and Benjamin Moser.