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"For Alexandra Kaptein's piano performance, great admiration is fitting. Her technique is impeccable, her art of interpreting shows great empathy. She takes the listener on an evocatively streamlined journey in which imaginative expression prevails. She feels this music intuitively well and allows its poetic nature to come out well."

Biography

Alexandra Kaptein (1999, Netherlands) is a Dutch concert pianist with a great affection for German Romatic music. Franz Liszt has been a great source of inspiration for her for several years; in april 2024 she released her debut CD album with Transcriptions by Franz Liszt with the international label TRPTK and is vice president of the Franz Liszt Society in the Netherlands, for which she is writing and publishing articles, uniting her interest in Music Theory, Musicology and Performing.
Alexandra is currently studying in the post-Master program ‘Konzertexamen’ at the Hochschule für Music und Tanz Köln (Germany) with Prof. Andreas Frölich, and performing concerts all over the country. Currently she is teaching Harmony at the Piano at the ArtEZ University of the Arts Zwolle (The Netherlands).
In 2020, Alexandra graduated Bachelor cum laude from the ArtEZ Conservatory in Zwolle and in 2023 she graduated from Master with high results from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Next to that, Alexandra studied Theory of Music at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague from 2020 - 2022 and in summer 2024 she finished her study piano/ vocal correpetition with Frank van de Laar at the Conservatory of Amsterdam in her second Master's program.

At the age of six Alexandra won the first prize at the "Jugend musiziert" piano competition in Germany. This was the beginning of a long series of national and international piano competitions throughout Europe. Such as the first prize at the Von Bremen Piano Competition in Dortmund, Germany and the EPTA International Piano Competition 2016 in Belgium, as well as the first prize and audience prize at the International Piano Competition for Young Musicians in Enschede; 2017 First Prize, Audience Prize and Franz Liszt Prize in the final of Koffie bij de Piano in Den Bosch, Netherlands; 2019 First prize at the international competition in Val Tidone "Silvio Bengali" Italy.

Furthermore, Alexandra has participated in many master classes (with masters such as Leslie Howard, Hannes Minnar, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Boris Giltburg); played solo and chamber music in music festivals in Greece, Italy, Poland and Germany; worked with renowned orchestras (such as the Concertgebouwkamerorkest), and gives solo concerts in the Netherlands, Germany, through collaboration with Ministry of Culture in Havana Cuba, as well as on Radio 4 (AVRO/TROS).

Franz Liszt has been a great source of inspiration for her for several years. In recent years, Alexandra has participated in both International Franz Liszt Competitions in Weimar and Utrecht; in august of 2023 she recorded her debut CD album with Transcriptions by Franz Liszt with the international label TRPTK (release April 2024) and is vice president of the Franz Liszt Society in the Netherlands, for which she is writing and publishing articles, uniting her interest in Music Theory, Musicology and Performing.

In season 2025-2026 Alexandra will be a finalist of the Dutch Classical Talent program, having a concert tour throughout the country.

Activities

• working as music theory teacher (subject: Harmony at the Piano) at ArtEZ University of the Arts

• collaboration with singers ( worked as associated pianist at DNOA - Dutch National Opera Academy)

• vice president of the Franz Liszt Society in the Netherlands; Collaboration with the Franz Liszt Society Weimar, Germany

• publication of musicological studies/articles - was nominated for the KVNM Artistic Research prize

• collaboration with Ministry of Culture in Havana Cuba, performing music of Dutch - Cuban composer Hubert de Blanck