Aleksandr Haskin (United States/Belarus)
Flute Professor/Guest Artist
Flute
Hailed by the
Washington Post
as “A Musician of exceptional power and dramatic
skill, completely in charge of his instrument”, Aleksandr Haskin is
the top prize
winner of numerous
international competitions including the
Alexander & Buono
Internationa
l Flute Competition in New York,
Penderecki International Flute
Competition in Krakow, Poland, and so on. Most notably, Mr. Haskin won the
prestigious
Young Concert Artist International Audition in New York
in 2009 as
one of the ten flutists in the world who won the honor in over 50 years.
Born in Minsk, Belarus, Mr. Haskin received his
education from the Moscow
Tchaikovsky Conserva
tory in Russia and fro
m the
Yale University School of Music
in USA.
Since 2008
,
he has served as
the
Principal flutist of Qa
tar Philharmonic
Orchestra. During
2007
-
2008
,
Mr. Haskin was solo piccoloist of the Bolshoi Theatre
Orchestra in Moscow. He was also principal flutist of the Moscow Conservatory
Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
Mr. Haskin made his highly acclaimed solo debut at the Kenn
e
d
y Center for
Performing Arts in 2011. He has appeared in solo and chamber concerts at the
Merkin Hall in New York, Nexus Concert Hall in Tokyo, Forbidden City Concert
Hall in Beijing, Museum of Glinka in Moscow, among others.
Alongside his
orchestral and s
olo career, Mr.
Haskin
taught
at Qatar Music A
cademy and
Ame
rican School of Doha. He
regularly conducts
master classes and open
coaching
in some of the most renowned institutions in the U.S., including the
N
ew England
Conservatory,
Mannes School of Music,
Carnegie
-
Mellon University,
Colburn
School and
the
University of South
ern
California
.
He is a frequent faculty
-
in
-
residence and clinician at music festivals and summer camps in the U.S. and Europe.
He has been
invited as guest artist in
Italy, Luxembourg,
China,
Russia, Belarus, Iran
and
the
United Arab Emirates, as well as to adjudicate flute competitions in both
Russia and China.
In August 2017, he was invited to perform duet with renowned
American flutist and journalist Eugenia Zukerman at the Kennedy Center for
Performing Arts.
Mr. Haskin is a proud Burkart Artist and Representative
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