Alex Osipenko, Double bass

Alex was born in 1985 in the city of Rostov, Russia. He started his musical career at the age of 13 as a jazz bass-guitarist. After 2 years he changed to double bass and combined both classical and jazz study on this instrument. In 2001 he entered the Rostov State Rachmaninov Conservatoire, later transferring to the Minsk Academy of Music in 2004, where he studied with N. Krivosheev. Whilst studying in Minsk he also worked with the Belorussian State Phliharmonie for two years. Alex is a graduate of the Prins Claus Conservatorium in the Netherlands where he studied with Sorin Orchinsci.

10 questions

Who are your favourite 3 composers?

Schumann, Schubert, Shostakovich 

Are you a cat or a dog person?

Dog 

Who is your favourite film character (and name of the film)?

Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) from ”Back to the future“ 

What 3 foods can you not live without?

My mother’s cakes, chocolate, good cheese 

When you were 6, what did you want to be when you grew up?

Probably a taxi driver 

If you could wake up on holidays tomorrow anywhere in the world, where would it be?

On a tropical beach of South America or the Carribean 

What are you non musicals hobbies/interests?

Reading and traveling 

Who is your favourite author?

Gabriel Garcia Marques, F.Dostoevski 

What are you annoyed by?

Uncreativeness and dullness 

Who are you inspired by?

My wife, teacher and friends