Andrei Korobeinikov
was born on the 10th of July 1986 in the town of Dolgoprudny in the Moscow region of Russia. Since the age of 5 he plays the piano. Since 1994 till 2006 he has got more than 20 prizes in different national and international competitions. Among them ? the I prize at the III Alexander Scriabin International piano competition in Moscow (2004) and the II prize with the Audience prize at the II Sergei Rachmaninov International piano competition in Los Angeles (2005).

Andrei gave his first professional solo recital at the age of 8 at the Great Hall of the Baku State Academy of Music in Azerbaijan. Since then he's performed concerts in more than 40 countries of the world: in Austria, Bulgaria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Uruguay, United States of America, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and in many cities of the Russian Federation.

Andrei Korobeinikov was fortunate and honoured to perform concerts with such amazing conductors as Vladimir Fedoseyev, Leonard Slatkin, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Iván Fischer, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Alexander Vedernikov, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Antoni Wit, Douglas Boyd, Alain Altinoglu, Michiyoshi Inoue, Okko Kamu, Taijiro Iimori, Dorian Wilson, Hobart Earle, Peter Stark, Juozas Domarkas, Gintaras Rinkevicius, Theodor Guschlbauer, Kwamé Ryan, Alexander Rudin, George Tchitchinadze, Vladimir Kiradjiev, Rossen Gergov, Kaspar Zehnder, Benjamin Ellin, Thierry Fischer, Matthias Foremny, Dmitri Jurowski, Olari Elts, Vakhtang Jordania, Vladimir Ziva, Maxim Shostakovich, Dmitri Liss, Mikhail Pletnev, Felix Korobov and others. Andrei feels himself as a soloist, but also adores performing chamber music recitals, especially with such miraculous artists as violinists Vadim Repin, Laurent Korcia, Dmitri Makhtin, Regis Pasquier, Leonard Schreiber, Alina Ibragimova, cellists Alexander Kniazev, Johannes Moser, Henri Demarquette, Alexander Buzlov, Tatjana Vassiljeva, sopranos Yana Ivanilova, Sarah Pagin, "Borodin Quartet", "Vanbrugh Quartet", pianists Boris Berezovsky, Frank Braley, Ikuyo Nakamichi, Alexander Paley. He has performed Shostakovich's piano-&-trumpet Concerto op.35 with such prominent trumpeters as Tine Thing Helseth, Sergei Nakariakov, David Guerrier, Mikhail Gaiduk, and also collaborated for Scriabin's "Prometheus" op.60 with the St. Petersburg State Capella Choir.

Among other orchestras, Andrei has had pleasure to perform with the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Sypmhony Orchestra (Tokyo), Orchestre National de France, NDR Symphonieorchester, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Lahti, Sinfonia Varsovia, Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Camerata Bern, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra (Moscow), Konzerthausorchester Berlin, "Kremerata Baltica" and other great orchestras.