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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 25/26 season, Kozhukhin will return to the Royal Festival Hall with the Philharmonia Orchestra, to the Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Philharmonic on a nationwide tour led by their Chief Conductor Lorenzo Viotti, and to the Megaron in Athens to perform all Rachmaninoff concerti in consecutive nights. Other highlights of the season include debuts with the Toronto Symphony and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras under Music Directors Gustavo Gimeno and Jonathan Heyward respectively, the Hallé Orchestra, SWR Stuttgart, Barcelona Symphony, Orchestre National de Lille, Iceland Symphony, and an Asian tour that includes performances with the NSO Taiwan, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, and recitals in Pohang, Daegu, and Tokyo.
Other recent highlights include performances with Oslo Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Washington’s National Symphony, Danish National Symphony, Camerata Salzburg, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, Dallas, Melbourne 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.
