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A pianist of exceptional technique, emotional depth and sophistication, Denis Kozhukhin has gained significant recognition through his powerful performances, establishing himself as one of the most accomplished musicians of his generation.
In the 26/27 season, amongst other engagements Kozhukhin will return to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, to the US with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra, and to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to perform both Brahms concertos with the orchestra and for a recital of Brahms’ chamber music. Other highlights of the season include an Asian tour that includes recital performances with Janine Jansen in Taipei and Seoul.
Other recent highlights include performances with Oslo Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony, Camerata Salzburg, Royal Philharmonic, Dallas, and San Francisco Symphonies, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and WDR Sinfonieorcheste, working with Rafael Payare, Ryan Bancroft, Alain Altinoglu, Jakub Hrůša, Paavo Järvi, Cristian Macelaru, Daniel Barenboim, Hannu Lintu, Sir Simon Rattle, Dalia Stasevska and Santtu-Matias Rouvali among others. He also has performed recitals at Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Bozar Brussels, Vienna’s Musikverein, Philharmonie Paris and Cologne, Stockholm’s Konserthus, Berlin’s Boulez Saal, as well as London’s Wigmore Hall. Away from the piano, Kozhukhin has also begun to appear as a conductor, a growing area of his musicianship.
Since winning the Queen Elizabeth Competition in 2010, Denis has performed with the London Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Staatskapelle Berlin. A sought-after recitalist and chamber musician, Kozhukhin regularly appears at a number of prominent music festivals including Verbier, Gstaad, Grafenegg, Dresden, Intonations Festival, Tsinandali, Klavier Ruhr, Lanaudiere, and Jerusalem Music Festivals, as well as the BBC Proms.
As a Pentatone recording artist, his discography spans works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Ravel and Gershwin.
A graduate of the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid under the guidance of Dmitri Bashkirov and Claudio Martinez-Mehner, Kozhukhin further honed his skills at the Piano Academy at Lake Como, where he received advice from notable pianists such as Fou Ts'ong, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Peter Frankl, Boris Berman, Charles Rosen, and Andreas Staier, and Kirill Gerstein in Stuttgart.
