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Alexandre Dossin
(541) 346-3781
adossin@uoregon.edu

Alexandre Dossin is an assistant professor of piano performance and piano literature. He received his D.M.A. from the University of Texas-Austin in 2001, and an M.F.A. from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Russia) in 1996. His principal teachers were Sergei Dorensky at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and William Race and Gregory Allen at UT-Austin. Before joining the University of Oregon music faculty in 2006, Dr. Dossin was on the faculty of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette from 2001–02, and from 2002–06 at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Dossin received the First Prize and the Special Prize at the 2003 Martha Argerich International Piano Competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His other awards include the Silver Medal and second Honorable Mention in the Maria Callas Grand Prix (Athens, Greece, 1996), Third Prize and Special Prize in the Mozart International Piano Competition (Salzburg, Austria, 1995). In 1997 Dossin was the youngest person ever to receive the prestigious State Award “Ambassador of Rio Grande do Sul” in Brazil, and in 1998 he was the only student in the University of Texas at Austin School of Music to receive the Graduate Pre-Emptive Fellowship.

Conductors with whom Dossin has performed include Charles Dutoit, Isaac Karabtchevsky, and Michael Gielen, with orchestras such as the Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Brazilian National Symphony, Mozarteum University Symphony, and Tchaikovsky Conservatory Symphony. He performed numerous live recitals for public radio in Wisconsin and Illinois, including the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago. Dossin has performed in international festivals in Japan, Canada, United States, and Argentina, in some occasions sharing the stage with Martha Argerich.

Critics have called Dossin a “wonderful pianist,” “master of contrasts,” “master of expressiveness,” and “a stunning pianist with a symbiotic relationship with the instrument.”

He has CDs released by Musicians Showcase Recording (2002), and Blue Griffin (A Touch of Brazil, 2005), praised in reviews by Financial Times, Diapason, Fanfare, American Record Guide and Clavier, among other international publications. Dossin’s Verdi-Liszt Paraphrases CD (2007) was included in Naxos’ “Liszt Complete Piano Works” series. He has two new CDs coming out on the Naxos label, featuring music of Dmitri Kabalevsky. Dossin is a member of the American Liszt Society (and president of the Oregon Chapter), College Music Society, Music Teachers National Association, and is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.