Aylen Pritchin is one of the most sought-after and versatile artists on the current scene. He performs a repertoire ranging from early music to contemporary music, on both period and modern instruments.
Pritchin has received numerous awards, including First Prize at the Long-Thibaud International Competition in Paris in 2014.
A renowned chamber musician, he is invited to numerous festivals, notably making his debut at the Just Klassik Festival in Troyes, the Landshut Kammermusik Festival in Germany, and the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival in Austria, where he has returned several times. In March 2024, Aylen and Maxim Emelyanychev will perform as a duo at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (production by Jeanine Roze). The programme includes works by Brahms, Dvořák and Grieg.
Highlights of recent seasons include successful collaborations with: the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and its musical director Maxim Emelyanychev (Brahms), the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse (Prokofiev 2; Bruch 1), the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (Saint-Saëns 3; Prokofiev 2), the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra (Brahms), the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria (Schnittke 2), the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra (Stravinsky), the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra (Williams; Stravinsky), and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta (Mendelssohn). He has also collaborated with Il Pomo d'Oro Orchestra under the baton of Maxim Emelyanychev at the MozartFest in Würzburg (Mozart 3) and with the Gunma Symphony Orchestra in Japan (Mozart 5).
Pritchin has also worked with conductors such as Teodor Currentzis, Christian Arming, Yip Wing-sie, Shao-Chia Lü, Michiyoshi Inoue, Cornelius Meister, Yuri Simonov, Dorian Wilson, Mikhail Gerts, Shlomo Mintz, Olivier Ochanine and Valentin Uryupin.
In 2022, his album Debussy-Hahn-Stravinsky, a duo with Lukas Geniušas, was released by Mirare Productions. It received the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik in Germany and a Choc de Classica in France. The recording was selected by The New York Times as one of the ‘5 classical albums to listen to right now’.
Aylen currently teaches at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf.

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