Born in 1988 in Kiev, Gorlatch began his piano studies at age seven with Eduard-Georg Georgiew in Passau before becoming a junior student of Martin Hughes at the Berlin University of the Arts, continuing studies two years later with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the University of Music and Drama Hanover and subsequently with Bernd Goetzke.

His victory at the 2011 International ARD Music Competition, where Alexej Gorlatch additionally received the audience prize as well as six further special prizes, was preceded by a remarkable musical career – within just six years, he received first prize at nine international piano competitions, including those in Hamamatsu, Japan (2006), the German Music Competition (2008), the International A G Rubinstein Competition (2009), and in Dublin (2009), as well as the Silver Medal in Leeds.

Gorlatch combines extraordinary pianistic potential with a farsighted creative power and a sensitive sense of sound (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2012) – which has already taken him to the world’s most important concert stages and most renowned festivals: Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, the Konzerthaus in Berlin and the Great Hall of the Berliner Philharmonie, Suntory Hall and Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, the Herkulessaal and Philharmonie in Munich, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Festival International de Piano “La Roque d’Anthéron”, the Lucerne Festival and the Ruhr Piano Festival.