Nikolai Anatolyevich Demidenko

Nikolai Demidenko’s great performances in more than 50 concerts specifically endorse his interpretations of Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Medtner, and Tchaikovsky. As a result, he has earned worldwide recognition for his virtuosity, passion, and musicality.Nikolai has worked with prominent conductors such as Yuri Termikanov, Sir Roger Norrington, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Charles Dutoit, Sir Andrew Davis, Giancarlo Guerrero, Dima Slobodeniouk, and Robert Treviño. He collaborates with the St Petersburg Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Philharmonia Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony, Orchestre National
de France, Helsinki Philharmonic, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Xi´an Symphony Orchestra, and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. In Spain, he has worked with, among others, the Barcelona and National Orchestra of Catalonia, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Navarre Symphony Orchestra, Galicia Symphony Orchestra, and the National Orchestra of Spain. In 2016, he was Artist in Residence with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.
Among the frequent recitals he gives in London, his participations in the Great Performers Series at the Barbican, in the International Piano Series at the Southbank Centre, and in the Pianoforte Series in London at Wigmore Hall stand out. In 2019-20, he will offer recitals in Germany, China, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, and Spain; he will also open the ORTVE season with its principal conductor Pablo González, and will play alongside the Fort
Wayne Philharmonic and Andrew Constantine.
His extensive discography consists of nearly 40 recordings. For Hyperion Records, he has recorded more than 20 CDs, including Prokofiev’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, re-released in March 2015, the Gramophone Editor’s Choice award-winning album of Medtner, Music for two Pianos together with Dmitri Alexeev, his Rachmaninov CD awarded the BBC Music Magazine Best of The Year and the Diapason D’Or, and the Tchaikovsky and Scriabin Piano Concertos, which won the BBC Music Magazine Best of The Year and Best Concerto Recording of the Year by Classics CD. Nikolai Demidenko’s Chopin album, released in 2008 for ONYX Classics, won the Special Chopin MIDEM 2010 Award.
Nikolai Demidenko is part of the Russian piano school, being one of its most brilliant representatives. He studied at the Moscow Conservatory with pianist and pedagogue Dmitri Bashkirov. He was awarded prizes at the Montreal International Competition and the Tchaikovsky International Competition. In 2014, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Surrey in recognition of his contribution to the field of Music.