Alexei Ogrintchouk is one of the most outstanding oboists performing today, and he is still in his twenties. A graduate of the Gnessin School of Music and the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied with Maurice Bourgue, Jacques Tys and Jean-Louis Capezzali, he combines astounding technique with virtuosity and lyricism.

Originally from Moscow, Alexei was already performing all over Russia, Europe and Japan from the age of 13. He is the winner of a number of international competitions including the prestigious CIEM International Competition in Geneva at the age of 19. He was also the winner of the European Juventus Prize in 1999, two "Victoires de la Musique Classique" Prizes in France in 2002, the Triumph Prize in Russia in 2005 and Borletti Buitini Trust Award winner in 2007. He has been part of the prestigious Rising Stars and BBC New Generation Artists Programmes.

Since August 2005 Alexei Ogrintchouk has been first solo oboist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam with Mariss Jansons. Until then he held the same post at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with Valery Gergiev - a position which he secured at the age of 20.

Alexei Ogrintchouk manages to combine orchestral playing with his ever-increasing solo engagements. A charismatic and technically brilliant soloist, he has performed concertos under the baton of conductors such as Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Fabio Luisi, Kent Nagano, Michel Plasson, Sir Andrew Davis, Roman Kofman, Daniel Harding, Stephan Deneve, John Neschling, Andris Nelsons, Susanna Malkki, Ion Marin, Lu Jia, Gianandrea Noseda and with the world's greatest orchestras including Orchestras of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres, Orchestre de l'Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, all the Orchestras of the BBC, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo, Beethovenhalle Orchestra Bonn, Orquesta Sinfonica de Tenerife, Basel Symphony Orchestra, Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Moscow Virtuosi, KREMERata Baltica, the Moscow Soloists, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Orchestre d'Auvergne, Europa Galante, New European Strings as well as the Concertgebouw, Munich, Stuttgart, Prague and UBS Verbier Chamber Orchestras.

As a recitalist and chamber musician he is much in demand and has performed throughout the world including in Theatre du Chatelet, Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Cite de la Musique, Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Musikverein in Vienna, Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, Carnegie Hall in New-York, Auditorium in Tel Aviv, Suntory Hall in Tokyo... He is also a frequent guest at festivals such as BBC PROMS, MIDEM, Colmar, Lockenhaus, Verbier, Santa Cecilia, Cortona, City of London Festival and the White Nights, Crescendo, Svyatoslav Richter December Nights and Easter Festival in Russia.

His recent chamber music partners have included Gidon Kremer, Radu Lupu, Thomas Quasthoff, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Bashmet, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Maurice Bourgue, Sarah Chang, Nikolai Znaider, Valery Affanasiev, Julian Rachlin, Leif Ove Andsnes, Fabio Biondi, Dmitri Sitkovetsky and Sergio Azzolini as well as Belcea, Eben, Sine Nomine and Tokyo string quartets.

Alexei Ogrintchouk has been a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London since 2001 and giving a number of masterclasses such as Pablo Casals Chamber Music Academy in Prades or Mahler Academy in Ferrara.

His first CD with the works by Schumann was released on Harmonia Mundi "Nouveau musicians" Series to exceptional reviews. His discography includes the world premiere of the slow movement of Beethoven oboe concerto (Raptus classics), music by Britten (Record One), Skalkotas (Bis Records). He also recently recorded the Mozart Oboe Concerto with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra (PentaTone Classics).