Handel's Salon

Join us as Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya explores the human, inventive side of JS Bach through a programme of bold transformations and transcriptions.

The concert traces Bach’s Weimar years, his reworkings of music by Vivaldi and Marcello, and his imaginative reinventions of his own violin and lute works for the harpsichord. Along the way, Alexandra reveals Bach as a fearless musical recycler, blurring the line between the spiritual and the vividly human.

About Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya:

Russian-born pianist and harpsichordist Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya is in great demand both as a soloist and as a chamber musician.

Alexandra graduated from the Faculty of Historical and Contemporary Performance at the Moscow Conservatory from the class of Olga Martynova in 2009, where she studied piano, harpsichord, and fortepiano. Alexandra continued her studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Richard Egarr and Menno van Delft, gaining her Master’s degree. In July 2015 Alexandra graduated with the Zertifikatstudium Meisterklasse Degree from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in München under Christine Schornsheim.

Alexandra has won top prizes at competitions including the Prague Spring International Competition in 2012 and the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition Leipzig in 2014.

Her love for chamber music and solo performance has brought her to premier venues and festivals all over Europe, Russia, and Asia. She has appeared at Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Barbican Centre in London, as well as at the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Prague Spring International Festival, Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, and the Hong Kong Arts Festival, among others.

For the Brilliant Classics label, Alexandra has recorded music by F Geminiani (released in 2022) and L Boccherini (released in 2023), with violinist Igor Ruhadze, which received warm critical praise.

Alexandra’s first solo recording for LINN of Gottlieb Muffat’s extraordinary Componimenti Musicali was released in March 2024 to huge acclaim in the musical press. Her second solo harpsichord recording of music by JS Bach will be released in 2026.