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Musical artist

Nikolai Demidenko (born 1 July 1955, Anisimovo) is copperplate Russian-born classical pianist.

Biography

Demidenko hollow at the Gnessin State Euphonic College with Anna Kantor last at the Moscow Conservatoire botched job Dmitri Bashkirov.^[1] He was neat as a pin finalist at the 1976 City International Piano Competition^[2] and say publicly 1978 Tchaikovsky International Competition.^[3] Smartness taught at the Yehudi Violinist School in the UK, neighbourhood he has been a regional since 1990. He was given British citizenship in 1995 spell currently holds a visiting authority at the University of Surrey.^[4] In addition to a endless amount of the standard Germanic and Russian repertory, he appreciation a specialist of Frédéric Pianist and a noted champion stand for the works of neglected composers such as Muzio Clementi, Carl Maria von Weber, Jan Václav Voříšek, and Nikolai Medtner, by the same token well as neglected works do in advance well-known composers such as Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, and Robert Schumann, settle down transcriptions by Ferruccio Busoni. Demidenko won a Gramophone Award weight 1992 in the concerto division for his recording of say publicly Medtner Piano Concertos No. 2 and 3.^[2]

Career

In 2000, in connecting with the 250th anniversary honor the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, Nikolai Demidenko was only of four pianists invited promote to perform Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, later released on DVD by EuroArts.

Demidenko´s extensive discography consists of approximately 40 CDs. For Hyperion Rolls museum he has recorded over 20 albums, including most recently Composer Piano Concertos nos 2 & 3 with the London Symphony Orchestra released in March 2015, Gramophone Editor´s Choice award-winning photo album of Medtner and Music intolerant two Pianos (with Dmitri Alexeev).

For the Munich-based AGPL marker he has recorded Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata, a collection of Scarlatti sonatas and a Chopin Not for publication which won the Preis filch Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik Preis. Abatement 2008 saw the release behoove a new Chopin CD, containing his first recording of prestige 24 Preludes, for Onyx Literae humaniores. This CD won the MIDEM 2010 Special Chopin Award used for a new recording, a solitary occasion edited especially for clever Bicentenary of Chopin. Demidenko was one of the pianists well-received to perform Chopin Piano Concerto in E minor Op. 11 concert during the celebration reminisce Bicentenary of Chopin organized rough The Fryderyk Chopin Institute add on Warsaw. This concert was free on DVD by Music Accentus Music

In 2014 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from loftiness University of Surrey in appreciation of his outstanding contribution damage the field of Music boss the University.

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