Alexander Knyazev is virtually Jack of all trades: he is a successful organist, cellist, and – since 2015 – pianist. He gained worldwide recognition after he had won several prestigious contests including the Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow, UNISA in South Africa, The Gaspar Cassado International Competition in Florence, and some others. He is Honored Artist of Russia.

Alexander Knyazev tours the world extensively. Ar an organ player, he perfroms in Russia and abroad, playing solo as well as with orchestras. Not once has he shared stage with French organist Jean Guillou; Guillou once invited Knyazev to play at Église Saint-Eustache in Paris. Knyazev, in his turn, recorded Guillou’s oeuvre “Concert Fantasia” for cello and organ (the piece actually had been written for the Russian musician).

In 2012, Alexander was the head of jury of the First All-Russia music contest in Kaliningrad, specialized at organ.

During his career, the musician played with collectives as prominent as Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra (London), Czech Philharmonic, Orchestre national de France, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Moscow and St Petersburg symphony orchestras, etc.

His music partners and collaborators are world famous musicians, conductors Kurt Mazur and Neeme Jarvi, Yuri Basmet and Alexander Vedernikov, and his ensemble partners were/are Yevgeny Kisin, Victor Tretyakov, Vadim Repin, Denis Matsuev, Boris Berezovsky, Nikolai Lugansky, and many others.

The discography of Alexander Knyazev consists of more than 40 CDs, with many of them award winning: ECHO Klassik, Diapason d’Or, Gramophone Prize, etc.