Video: Alexander Sevastian plays Organ Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 by J.S. Bach‬

The Peninsula Music Festival in their 64th season, Door County, Wisconsin will feature accordionist Alexander Sevastian in concert on Saturday, August 6, 2016. Victory Yampolsky is conductor and Benjamin Firer, emerging conductor. It will be Alexander’s first performance at PMF.

The program includes:
Massenet: Overture to Phédre *
Galliano: Accordion Concerto *
Frank Ticheli: Blue Shades
Dvorak: Slavonic Dance, Op 46, No. 2 in e minor +
Weber: Invitation to the Dance
Weber: Konzerstück, Finale *
Grindin: Gypsy Rhapsody *
Enesco: Romanian Rhapsody, Op. 11, No. 1, A Major
* PMF Premiere

From Alexander’s website: Alexander Sevastian is a winner of the prestigious Coupe Mondiale International Accordion Competition in 2007 in Washington, DC. He is also a winner of three other competitions such as The Oslofjord (Norway 1998), Cup of the North (Russia 2000), Antony Galla-Rini (USA 2001).

A native of Minsk, Belarus where he finished the Glinka College (class of Miron Boula) Alexander went to Moscow to study with famous Friedrich Lips. While he was a student, Mr. Sevastian joined a Russian TV folk instrument orchestra and with a great support from the conductor Nikolai Nekrasov he became a featured soloist.

After graduating from the Gnessin Academy of Music and getting a Master Degree in performance, Alexander moved to Toronto, Canada. Soon after he got an Advanced Certificate in Performance from the University of Toronto (class of Joseph Macerollo) and joined famous ensemble Quartetto Gelato. With this group Alexander has toured every province in Canada and almost every state in the USA. They will perform at the 2016 AAA Festival in Buffalo, New York taking place from July 6-10, 2016.

After his triumphal victory at the Coupe Mondiale in 2007 Alexander ‘s solo career began to thrive. He has had several solo tours of Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Prairies. He was invited to perform recitals at several prestigious festivals in Vancouver, Victoria,  Mont-Treblant, Montmagny, Las-Vegas, Stresa (Italy), Kraguevac (Serbia), Castelo Branco (Portugal), Samara (Russia).
Alexander was featured soloist with several leading North America symphony orchestras, including The Toronto Symphony with a very successful debut in 2008.

Alexander became a Canadian citizen in 2005. He is married and lives in Thornhill, Ontario with his wife Anna and son Vova.

Photos by Vladimir Kevorkov.

For further information: sevastian2004@gmail.com