AlexandraTchernakova
Pianist · Solo recitals & chamber music
You know this landscape: it’s dark ridges and white flats.
So much learning, it’s become a map inside.
As you explore its heights and depths, you find another world.
New solo album · GB Records · 5 February 2027
Ramble on Piano
Alexandra’s first solo album.
- La Biennale di Venezia
- Gavin Bryars Ensemble
- Superspectives, Lyon
- Torino Jazz Festival
- Piano City Milano
- Opera North
- Barbican, London
- Café Oto
- Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna
- Royal Opera House Muscat
- St George’s Bristol
- Faenza SaxArts Festival
- Imola Summer Music Festival
About
A pianist for new music and for the voice
Alexandra Tchernakova is a pianist who moves freely between the classical canon and the music of today. She has a particular love for living composers, championing new works and fresh programming.
Principal pianist of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble, Alexandra performs across Europe at festivals and venues including La Biennale di Venezia, Superspectives (Lyon), Torino Jazz Festival, Piano City Milano, Ravenna Festival and Opera North in Leeds. She regularly partners with singers and instrumentalists, in both solo and chamber settings.
She trained at Moscow’s Gnesin Academy, Milan’s Conservatorio Verdi and the Accademia Internazionale di Imola.
Alexandra Tchernakova is a pianist whose work centres on solo recitals and chamber music. She moves freely between the classical canon and the music of today, with a particular commitment to living composers and new works. Her concerts have taken her to La Biennale di Venezia, Superspectives in Lyon, Torino Jazz Festival, Piano City Milano and Café Oto in London.
Her debut solo album, Ramble on Piano, will be released on GB Records on 5 February 2027. Devoted entirely to music by living composers, it brings together works by Gavin Bryars, Yuri Bryars, Fazıl Say, David Ridley and Lee Bradshaw.
Since 2020 she has been principal pianist of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble, working closely with the composer himself on projects including Nothing Like the Sun with Opera North and Ramble on Cortona at the Barbican. With the Portuguese saxophonist Manuel Teles she forms a duo devoted to cross-genre contemporary repertoire; their debut album Stepdance came out on GB Records in 2025. She has collaborated with singers including Riccardo Zanellato, Juliana Grigoryan, Sarah Gabriel and John Potter.
Alexandra is also an experienced maestro collaboratore. She works at the Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan and was selected for Riccardo Muti’s Italian Opera Academy in 2022.
She graduated with high honours from the Gnesin Academy in Moscow, where she studied with Vladimir Ovchinnikov, and went on to a Master’s in Contemporary Chamber Music at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan. She has taken masterclasses with Natalia Trull and Natalia Gutman.
“…internationally renowned for her sensitive playing and beautifully refined touch. With a program that effortlessly switched between classical and contemporary repertoire, she captivated the audience from start to finish.”
In en om Ootmarsum · Pianofestival Twente, September 2025
Her work
Solo, chamber and events
Solo
Solo recitals grounded in the classical tradition, drawn to twentieth-century and contemporary music. Her debut solo album, Ramble on Piano, is out on 5 February 2027.
Solo recitalsChamber & Contemporary
Principal pianist of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble since 2020, a duo with saxophonist Manuel Teles, and extensive work with singers and in opera as a maestro collaboratore.
Chamber musicEvents
Solo piano for weddings, private celebrations and hotels, and a duo with baritone Leonardo Cremona.
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