Biography

Alexey Stychkin was born in Moscow into a family of musicians and filmmakers. At the age of five he began playing the violin with Maxim Vengerov Galina Tourchaninova as a teacher. In 2018 he graduated from the Central Music School of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he studied with Eduard Grach. He was admitted to the Liege Royal Conservatory, where he is currently studying with Marc Bouchkov, whose classes he has already attended for the past three years. 

Alexey attended master classes with Pavel Vernikov, Victor Tretyakov, Boris Kushnir and Ivry Gitlis. He is also a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and takes part in the intensive weeks there. 

In 2014 he was awarded the special prize at the “Andreas Postacchini” competition. Alexey is the Grand Prix winner of two chamber music competitions and performs at concerts organized by "New Names" and the "Spivakov Foundation". In 2017 he won the 3rd prize of the "International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians" and received a special prize for the best Mozart performance. In 2019 Alexey received the 1st prize in the “Castle Festival Competition”. In 2020 he won the 3rd and the public prize at the “Vieuxtemps competition” in Belgium. 

Alexey started his solo career in 2007 with a Vivaldi concert accompanied by the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. He has performed in several countries including France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Israel, Greece and Japan, where he participated in the Le Pont Festival organized by the concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, Daishin Kashimoto. In 2014 he gave a concert tour in Italy, sponsored by the Rotary Club Foundation. In 2017/2018 he took part in the Junior Music Tour. As an enthusiastic chamber musician, he was appointed concertmaster of the Central Music School Orchestra and the Russian-Belarusian Youth Orchestra. Later in the same year he made his debut in the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatory with the symphony orchestra and ended the year with a performance with the GUSO orchestra in Belgium. In 2019 he performed for Queen Mathilde of Belgium and played with Kristof Barati and Count Mourzha at the Auer Heritage festival. In 2020 he played a Tchaikovsky concert with Maestro Fabio Mastrangelo and the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra.