Essen-born percussionist Alexei Gerassimez is as versatile a musician as his instruments. He is not only a phenomenal virtuoso, but also a creative and intelligent musician with incredible energy and a wealth of colour. His repertoire ranges from classical to contemporary and jazz to minimalism, whilst also performing his own works. He is not only a phenomenal virtuoso, but also a creative and intelligent musician, with an incredible energy and great richness of colour. He creates solo programmes, performs with his own percussion group and is an enthusiastic chamber musician.

His own compositions are characterized by the exploration of rhythmic and acoustic possibilities, as well as by the creation of individual sounds and the joy of crossing borders. Accordingly, Gerassimez integrates not only the usual percussion and melody instruments but also objects from different contexts such as bottles, brake discs, barrels or ship propellers. His first album, Alexej Gerassimez: Percussion, was published by GENUIN and was received enthusiastically by the press

The world premiere of John Psatha's concerto ‘Leviathan’ took place with great success in the Berlin Philharmonie in 2021, followed by concerts in the Elbphilharmonie and the Tonhalle Düsseldorf as well as in New Zealand. He premiered Kalevi Aho's double concerto for viola and percussion in 2022 and recorded it for BIS records. The new percussion concerto by Japanese composer Malika Kishino was performed for the first time in 2022 under the direction of Jonathan Stockhammer.

In the 2024-2025 season, he will accept re-invitations from the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Essen Philharmonic, the NDR Radiophilharmonie and the Munich Symphony Orchestra and will be a guest at the Elbphilharmonie with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. In March 2025, Alexei Gerassimez curated the Spring Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on the island of Rügen. His partners include cellist Anastasia Kobekina, pianists Arthur and Lucas Jussen and jazz pianist Omer Klein. The programme ‘Starry Night’ with the SIGNUM saxophone has been released as an album by Berlin Classics.