Denis Kozhukhin

Denis Kozhukhin catapulted to international superstar when he captured initial reward in the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Competition in-may 2010. Looks at main concert venues adopted, including at Carnegie Hall as well as the Leipzig Gewandhaus. Invites for other main debuts flooded in and Kozhukhin toured the world, impressing critics and stunning audiences. Kozhukhin can be an imposing shape when he strolls on-stage: high and slim, with lengthy blond hair linked inside a ponytail, he rests right down to play with an all-encompassing technique and feeling of total self-confidence. And that self-confidence is needed taking into consideration the demanding character of his repertory: he earned the Queen Elizabeth by playing the titanically challenging Prokofiev Second Concerto in the ultimate circular. He also takes on the immensely demanding Brahms Second and functions by Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, Mussorgsky, and Rachmaninov. But his repertory also contains more moderate fare by J.S. Bach and Haydn, aswell as modern music by such composers as Ligeti. Kozhukhin also frequently performs chamber music with such performers as cellists Alisa Weilerstein and Jacob Koranyi, horn participant Radovan Vlatkovic, and violinist Dora Schwarzberg. Denis Kozhukhin was created in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 1986. At age group four he started piano lessons along with his mom and down the road researched locally with Natalia Seafood in the Balakirev College of Music. At 14 he shifted to Madrid and started studies on the Reine Sofia College of Music, where his most significant teachers had been Dmitri Bashkirov and Claudio Martínez-Mehner. He also had taken professional classes from Alicia de Larrocha, Leon Fleisher, and Rosalyn Tureck. He previously further education at International Piano Academy Lake Como, Italy, with Peter Frankl, Fou Ts’ong, Boris Berman, and various other notables, and also after his Queen Elizabeth success he was still their studies at the Stuttgart-based Staatliche Hochschule für Music with Kirill Gerstein. Kozhukhin captured third award on the 2006 Leeds International Piano Competition. While he had been energetic on the concert picture, this positive result provided him greater money on the worldwide scene but nonetheless largely in minimal concert locations. Kozhukhin won this year’s 2009 Vendome Award Competition in Lisbon but didn’t rest lengthy on his today developing laurels, as he shortly began arrangements for the Queen Elizabeth. The initial important concert pursuing that impressive success was his June 2010 Carnegie Hall recital of functions by Mussorgsky, Haydn, Schumann, and Ligeti, which drew solid praise from the brand new York Situations and augured additional success.