The best of the West! Join the inaugural city performance of Western Sydney Philharmonic with piano superstar Alexander Gavrylyuk and cond. Fabian Russell. Works by Dvořák, Grieg, and Sdraulig.

Born in Ukraine in 1984 and holding Australian citizenship, Alexander Gavrylyuk began his piano studies at the age of seven and gave his first concerto performance when he was nine years old. At the age of 13, Alexander moved to Sydney where he lived until 2006. He won First Prize and Gold Medal at the Horowitz International Piano Competition (1999), First Prize at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition (2000), and Gold Medal at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition (2005).

He has since gone on to perform with many of the world’s leading orchestras.

Fabian Russell was born in Sydney, Australia in 1968. In a career spanning more than three decades, he has been at the forefront of the Australian classical music industry as a multi-award winning conductor, artistic director, pedagogue, orchestral musician and solo performer.