Alexandra Beliakovich

Alexandra Beliakovich is a versatile Belarusian-American pianist and educator. As a performer, she appeared with the Belarusian Symphony, Belarusian Chamber Orchestra, Cincinnati and Manhattan School of Music Philharmonic Orchestras, Havana Symphony Orchestra and as recitalist in Belarus, China, Cuba, Japan, Poland, Spain and the USA. Alexandra was a prize winner in several piano competitions; she won First Prize at the Klaviermusik International Competition in Vilnius, Lithuania, Second Prize at the Fourth International Piano Competition in Panama and Second Prize at the World Piano Competition 2011. Alexandra’s recent engagements include concerto performances with the Charlottesville Symphony Orchestra and the Havana Symphony Orchestra in Cuba, where her performances of Gershwin’s Concerto in F and Beethoven’s Concerto No. 5 won critical acclaim. As a soloist, she has also been featured on a WQXR radio broadcast and was a featured pianist at the 2018 Bar Harbor Music Festival.

Alexandra is also a devout chamber musician, having performed with many fine musicians including Howard Aibel, Gilbert Kalish and Anastasia Khitruk. Alexandra has participated in the Yellow Barn Music Festival in Vermont and the Bowdoin Chamber Music Festival in Maine, where she performed some of the most adventurous traditional and contemporary chamber music compositions. She has also performed as an organist and harpsichordist – both as a soloist and in an ensemble, and pursues an interest in composition.

Some of Alexandra’s latest performances involve lecturing as well as performing. Her most recent performance project (which was part of her Doctoral research project) was a lecture-recital on the topic of “Encores of the Golden Age of Pianism.” In other recent projects, Alexandra explored such topics as innovative piano compositions (“The Revolutionaries: Intrepid Piano Music”) and piano transcriptions of vocal/instrumental and ballet music (“Grand Piano: Strings a capella”). Alexandra is committed to exploring the undiscovered or unjustly forgotten piano miniatures.

Alexandra Beliakovich is a recipient of the scholarship from the Belarusian President’s Special Fund for Talented Youth (2004 and 2005), Roy M. Rubinstein Piano Performance Award (2010), and Helen Cohn Award (2016). In 2015, Alexandra was named an Outstanding Citizen of the City of New York by the City Countil.

From 2004 to 2006, Alexandra was an Advanced Student of piano and organ under Jury Gildiuk at the Belarusian State Academy of Music. She has since earned her Master’s and Doctoral Degrees from the Manhattan School of Music where she studied with Solomon Mikowsky.

Alexandra was recently appointed as Music Director at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, and has been a piano faculty member at Seton Hall University since 2021, where she also works as an Assistant Choir Director.