Alexandre Kantorow

Pianist Alexandre Kantorow, with two albums under his belt before reaching age 20, has played and recorded the music of Liszt, and he has the explosive quality the young Liszt himself must have had. Jerry Dubins of the U.S. magazine Fanfare even proclaimed Kantorow "Liszt reincarnated." The son of violinist-conductor Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Alexandre was born on May 20, 1997, in Clermont-Ferrand in central France. He has been groomed for a career as a pianist for most of his life, studying with France's top teachers, including, first, Pierre-Alain Volondat. At the Schola Canto...