Alexander Borisovich Sverjensky (Александр Борисович Сверженский) (26 March 1901 – 3 October 1971) was a Russian-born Australian pianist and teacher.

He accompanied the soprano Lydia Lipkovska on a tour of China, Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, and then appeared as a soloist in Europe.

He was the first person to play the music of Sergei Prokofiev in Australia, and also championed other Russian composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Alexander Scriabin, Nikolai Medtner, Mily Balakirev, Glazunov and Rachmaninoff.

[3] From 1938 he became a piano teacher at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music, and had a profound influence on a generation of Australian and New Zealand pianists and their own students.

These included Nancy Salas, Malcolm Williamson,[4] Larry Sitsky,[5] Romola Costantino, Roger Woodward, Richard Farrell,[6] Stephanie McCallum,[7] Anne Harvey (mother of Michael Kieran Harvey),[8] Neta Maughan (mother and teacher of Tamara Anna Cislowska),[9] Daniel Herscovitch,[10] Julie Adam,[11] Grant Foster,[12] Rhondda Gillespie,[13] Robert Weatherburn,[14] Tamás Ungár,[15] David Miller,[16] Helen Quach,[17] Alison Bauld,[18] Garry Laycock,[19] Pamela Sverjensky,[20] Suzanne Cooper,[21] Julia Brimo,[22] Vladimir Pleshakov,[2] Helen Priestner Edmonds[23] and Edward Theodore.