His victory at the International ARD Music Competition
in 2011, where Alexej Gorlatch simultaneous won
the audience prize and six more special prizes, was
preceded by a remarkable musical career – within just
six years he won first prizes at nine important international
piano competitions, including the one in Hamamatsu,
Japan (2006), at the German Music Competition
(2008), the International A. G. Rubinstein
Competition (2009), and in Dublin (2009), as well
as the silver medal in Leeds. The present recording of
the famous Beethoven sonatas was made in July 2013
in Studio 2 of the BR in Munich.