Alexander Jansen was born in the spring of 2005 in the beautiful city of Utrecht, the Netherlands. He began taking piano lessons at the age of 7 from his mother, piano teacher E. Jansen. At the age of 10, he began performing in public and gave concerts in France, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.
When he was 11 years old, Alexander was admitted to the young talent program at the Utrecht Conservatory. At the Utrecht Conservatory, Alexander studied with the renowned Dutch piano teacher Marjes Benoist, and since 2021, he has been studying with concert pianist and composer Thomas Beijer.
In 2021, when he was just 16 years old, Alexander was admitted as a student of Professor Sergei Edelmann at the prestigious Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, where he is currently in his third year of the bachelor’s program in piano.
Alexander is currently studying piano and composition at both the Conservatory of Amsterdam and the Conservatory of Antwerp, under the guidance of Frank van de Laar and composer Willem Jeths, and piano in Antwerp with Professor Sergei Edelmann.
In March 2022, Alexander was personally selected by the world-renowned pianist Lang Lang to participate in the Lang Lang Scholarship for young pianists.
Alexander has won numerous prizes at national and international piano and composition competitions. In August 2025, Alexander won first prize at the prestigious “International Clara & Robert Schumann Competition” in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Alexander has been invited to perform in prestigious concert halls and at festivals in the Netherlands and abroad, such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, Cipriani Broadway in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Salzburg Summer Music Festival, the Oxford Piano Festival, the piano festival in Blonay, Switzerland, and many more.
Alexander has performed as a soloist with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the renowned Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.
Alexander had the privilege of taking masterclasses with some of the world’s most renowned professors and concert pianists, such as Prof. Boris Berman, Nikolay Lugansky, Anna Fedorova, Miguel Ituarte, Alberto Rosado, Prof. Ilja Scheps, Severin von Eckardstein, Mariam Batsashvili, Marietta Petkova, and many more.
Alexander is not only a top young pianist but also a highly talented composer.
