26-year-old flutist Aleksandr Haskin won the Jean Fergus First Prize in the 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, where he was also awarded the Leona Green Award for Winds, the Summis Auspiciis Prize, the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation Award, the Paramount Theater Prize (VT), and the Usedom Music Festival Prize.  Mr. Haskin will be presented in recital debuts in New York, sponsored by the Peter Jay Sharp Concert Prize, and Washington, DC in the 2010-11 Young Concert Artists Series, as well as in Boston at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 

As an orchestral musician, Mr. Haskin has performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, the Kennedy Center, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.  He has participated in various music festivals in the U.S., England, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Iran, Russia, and Belarus.

Mr. Haskin has already won top prizes at Competitions including the Penderecki Flute Competition in 2008 and the International Contemporary Chamber Music Competition in 2005 – both in Krakow, Poland, the Astana International Music Competition in Kazakhstan, and the Leonardo DeLorenzo Flute Competition in Viggiano, Italy.

Hailing from Minsk, Belarus, Mr. Haskin graduated with a PhD degree from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, under the tutelage of Alexander Golyshev.  He received career grants from the Guzik Foundation in Moscow and a scholarship to the Yale University School of Music, where he studied with Ransom Wilson and won the Woolsey Concerto Competition.  Mr. Haskin is a member of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra.

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