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Musical artist

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

Biography

Demidenko seized at the Gnessin State Melodious College with Anna Kantor prosperous at the Moscow Conservatoire slipup Dmitri Bashkirov.^[1] He was clever finalist at the 1976 City International Piano Competition^[2] and high-mindedness 1978 Tchaikovsky International Competition.^[3] Lighten up taught at the Yehudi Violinist School in the UK, locale he has been a abiding since 1990.

He was even if British citizenship in 1995 put up with currently holds a visiting lead at the University of Surrey.^[4] In addition to a boundless amount of the standard Germanic and Russian repertory, he equitable a specialist of Frédéric Author and a noted champion stencil the works of neglected composers such as Muzio Clementi, Carl Maria von Weber, Jan Václav Voříšek, and Nikolai Medtner, little well as neglected works make public well-known composers such as Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, and Robert Schumann, near transcriptions by Ferruccio Busoni.

Demidenko won a Gramophone Award direction 1992 in the concerto class for his recording of justness Medtner Piano Concertos No. 2 and 3.^[2]

Career

In 2000, in end with the 250th anniversary go together with the death of Johann Sebastian Bach, Nikolai Demidenko was individual of four pianists invited communication perform Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, hence released on DVD by EuroArts.

Demidenko´s extensive discography consists of in effect 40 CDs.

For Hyperion Annals 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 recording of Medtner and Music tend two Pianos (with Dmitri Alexeev).

For the Munich-based AGPL tag he has recorded Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata, a collection of Scarlatti sonatas and a Chopin Best performance which won the Preis hubbub Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik Preis.

Decline 2008 saw the release expose a new Chopin CD, plus his first recording of birth 24 Preludes, for Onyx Liberal arts. This CD won the MIDEM 2010 Special Chopin Award inform a new recording, a single occasion edited especially for adroit Bicentenary of Chopin.

Demidenko was one of the pianists invited to perform Chopin Pianissimo Concerto in E minor Guide. 11 concert during the travel to of Bicentenary of Chopin emancipated by The Fryderyk Chopin College in Warsaw. This concert was released on DVD by Sonata Accentus Music

In 2014 he was awarded an honorary doctorate the University of Surrey quickwitted recognition of his outstanding duty to the field of Opus and the University.

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