Alexander Lonquich has been played on NTS in shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, featured first on 5 July 2025. Songs played include Choses Vues À Droite Et À Gauche.

Alexander Lonquich was born in Trier in 1960. At the age of sixteen he reveals himself in Italy winning the First Price at the Casagrande Competition in Terni. Since then he holds concerts in Japan, United States and in the main European musical centres as Berlin, Vienna, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Madrid, Milan, etc.

His rich activity sees him engaged with several outstanding conductors as Claudio Abbado, Kurt Sanderling, Ton Koopman, Emmanuel Krivine. In this sense really special was his relationship to Sandor Vegh and the Camerata Academica Salzburg, which he has been regular guest of, also after the death of the great conductor.

His intellectual and musical curiosity has played an important role in the field of chamber music. As a matter of fact, Alexander Lonquich had the opportunity to collaborate with artists as famous as Schlomo Mintz, Steven Isserlis, Myklos Perenyi, Wolfram Christ, Karl Leister and Frank Peter Zimmermann (with which he was awarded several prices by the international critics, as "Diapason d’Or 1992", "Premio Abbiati" in 1993 and "Edison Prize" in Holland in 1994). His last solo recordings with EMI are dedicated to Mozart, Schubert and Schumann.

As soloist and conductor he collaborates among others with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Academica Salzburg and the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova.

Besides his engagements in the concert halls he works much as teacher and is regularly invited to hold master-classes in Europe, the United States and in Australia.

Moreover, he collaborates with the Accademia Pianistica in Imola and with the Hochschule für Musik in Köln.

Since 1998 he takes over the artistic direction of festivals and interdisciplinary meetings dealing also with interactions between theatre, literatures, music and figurative arts.