BIOGRAPHY
Born in 2006 into a family of musicians in Zurich, Switzerland, Alexander Sahatci is a Swiss pianist and violinist of Italo-Albanian origins. Currently, he is a second-year undergraduate student at the Royal College of Music, where he studies piano with Norma Fisher and violin with Ani Schnarch.
​​As a long-time student of the world-renowned violin Professor Zakhar Bron at the Zakhar Bron Academy in Interlaken, Alexander has participated in masterclasses with various other exceptional professors, including Silvia Marcovici, Bartłomiej Nizioł, Pavel Berman and Ning Feng.
With the piano, he has frequented many courses with artists such as Leonid Margarius, Roberto Giordano, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, Vitaly Samoshko and Enrico Pace.
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He is a Gordon Calway Stone Scholar supported by the Gylla Godwin Scholarship, the Ruth-&-Ernst-Burkhalter Foundation and the Fritz-Gerber Foundation.
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Alexander has won first prizes in various national and international competitions, including multiple editions of the Swiss Youth Music Competition and the Steinway Piano Competition Switzerland. As the winner of the Main Prize in 2023, he was invited to represent Switzerland participate at the Steinway International Festival 2023 in Hamburg.
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As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras such as the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, I Musici di Parma, the Omsk Chamber Orchestra, and the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. He has performed in prestigious concert halls such as the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Liszt Hall in Budapest, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Rustaveli Theatre in Tbilisi.