The Linz-born pianist Alexander Gegelyfi is a specialist in historical keyboard instruments. His keen interests in the development of his instrument and in researching and exploring Austrian music from the 17th and 18th centuries have led him to work in a variety of musical ensembles.
In 2023, he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in the new Kleine Nachtmusiken series with baritone Georg Nigl, with whom he has since appeared every year, performing on various historical keyboard instruments.
Highlights of 2025/26 have included performances at the Ruhr Piano Festival, accompanying Georg Nigl on the square piano in the song recital Die schöne Müllerin in Vienna, and performing in the co-production of Sebastian Schwab’s Holle! at the MusikTheater an der Wien and in the jung & jeder*r programme of the Salzburg Festival.
He is a permanent member of the Stuttgart Baroque orchestra il Gusto Barocco, with which his projects have included a Monteverdi cycle at the National Theatre in Mannheim. From 2014 to 2017 he performed with the much-acclaimed Berlin ensemble nexus baroque. He has also collaborated with the Neue Hofkapelle Graz, the L’Orfeo Barockorchester, Concentus Musicus Wien, the Compagnia Transalpina, the period-instrument orchestra Barucco, recreationBAROCK under Jordi Savall and the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg under Antonello Manacorda.
As a member of the ensemble Verbotene Frucht (Forbidden Fruit), which offers multi-faceted sound-painting through its combination of voice, violin, cello and harpsichord, he released his award-winning album Morbides mit Charakter in 2018; the follow-up, Liebe auf den ersten Schluck, was released in 2022.
His artistic work is documented on numerous other audio and video recordings. His first solo CD, Sapperlot!, was released by Carpe Diem Records in 2022. His most recent recording with Georg Nigl, entitled Mozart’s Clavichord, was released in July 2025 by Alpha Classics.
Alexander Gergelyfi studied historical keyboard instruments and early music performance practice in Linz, Graz, Strasbourg and in Hamburg with Menno van Delft and Gerhart Darmstadt.
Since 2018 he has been teaching clavichord, historical basso continuo, literature studies and historical language forms at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
