Nikolai Demidenko

Nikolai Demidenko studied at the Moscow Conservatoire with Dmitri Bashkirov. A medallist in the 1976 Montreal and 1978 Tchaikovsky international competitions, he made his British début in 1985 with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. A visiting professor at the University of Surrey, he has been resident in the UK since 1990 and was proud to be granted British citizenship in 1995.

Recent concerto engagements have included performances with the BBC Scottish, Royal Danish, Gothenburg, Prague, Lahti, Odense, RTE & Ulster Symphony Orchestras; the Camerata Salzburg; Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Helsinki, Israel & Royal Philharmonic Orchestras; the Philharmonia; l'Orchestre National de France; the Sinfonia Varsovia at Aix les Bains Festival; and a nine-concert UK tour with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductors with whom Nikolai Demidenko has worked include Andrey Boreyko, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Thierry Fischer, Daniel Harding, Manfred Honeck, Mariss Jansons, Okko Kamu, Yakov Kreizberg, Alexander Lazarev, Susanna Mälkki, Sir Roger Norrington, Gianandrea Noseda, Gerard Schwarz, Leif Segerstam, Evgeny Svetlanov, Yan Pascal Tortelier & Osmo Vanska.

Nikolai Demidenko has given recitals in Amsterdam, Bilbao, Bremen, Brisbane, Bristol, Edinburgh, Madrid, Melbourne, Pamplona, Perth, Prague, Seville, Sydney, Toronto & Zaragoza; the Al Bustan, Belfast, Città del Castello, Lichfield, New Zealand, Norfolk & Norwich, Prague Spring, Singapore International Piano, Sintra & Snape Maltings Easter Festivals as well as the Chopin Festivals of Duszniki, Bagatelles in Paris, Nohant & Valldemossa. He made his New York début at the Frick Collection in 2001 and plays annually in the Herkulessaal in Munich.

Nikolai Demidenko's frequent Wigmore Hall recitals have included his six-part series entitled Piano Masterworks which won a Royal Philharmonic Society Award. He also appears regularly in both the London International Piano series at the Royal Festival Hall and the Great Performers series at the Barbican Concert Hall. In June 1999 the Barbican Concert Hall and the Cité de la Musique in Paris invited him to take part in an innovative project performing Beethoven's Diabelli Variations with the Twyla Tharp Dance Company. The success of this collaboration let to an invitation from the Los Angeles Performing Arts Center for Nikolai Demidenko to perform Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata with the Twyla Tharp Dance Company in June 2001. He returns to the Barbican's Great Performers series in October 2004 with an all-Beethoven programme which includes the Diabelli Variations.

For Hyperion Records Nikolai Demidenko has recorded albums of Bach-Busoni, Chopin, Clementi, Liszt, Medtner, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Schubert & Schumann, a 'Live at Wigmore' double album of the 'Piano Masterworks' series, and concertos by Chopin, Medtner, Scriabin, Tchaikovsky & Weber as well as the complete Prokofiev Concertos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alexander Lazarev. For the Munich-based AGPL label he has recorded Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata; the next project for this label is an album of Scarlatti Sonatas to be released in Autumn 2004.

Current and forthcoming appearances include recitals in Brisbane, Charlottesville Virginia, Hong Kong, Philharmonic Hall Liverpool & Bridgewater Hall Manchester and performances at the festivals of Båstad, Bayreuth, Canterbury, Duszniki, Newbury Spring, Petworth, Schwetzingen, Swansea & Windsor. As well as a UK tour with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra he plays with the Bournemouth, Hallé, São Paulo, Singapore & Spanish National Symphony and the Auckland, Royal Liverpool, Oslo & Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestras.

Ongoing highlights for Nikolai Demidenko are his performances with the St Petersburg Philharmonic and Yuri Temirkanov at the Philharmonic Hall Berlin, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Barbican Concert Hall London, Bridgewater Hall Manchester, Santa Caecilia Rome & the Great Hall of St Petersburg.

"His extraordinary intimacy with the piano, which withholds no secrets of keyboard brilliance or expressive colouring from him, maximises the potential in the scoring, however modest or extravagant, of whatever he chooses to play."
Gerald Larner, The Times

Contact details and further information

Representation: Georgina Ivor Associates,
28 Old Devonshire Road
London SW12 9RB
UK

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	Nikolai Demidenko *Piano*
	Nikolai Demidenko studied at the Moscow Conservatoire with Dmitri Bashkirov. A medallist in the 1976 Montreal and 1978 Tchaikovsky international competitions, he made his British début in 1985 with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. A visiting professor at the University of Surrey, he has been resident in the UK since 1990 and was proud to be granted British citizenship in 1995. Recent concerto engagements have included performances with the BBC Scottish, Royal Danish, Gothenburg, Prague, Lahti, Odense, RTE & Ulster Symphony Orchestras; the Camerata Salzburg; Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Helsinki, Israel & Royal Philharmonic Orchestras; the Philharmonia; l'Orchestre National de France; the Sinfonia Varsovia at Aix les Bains Festival; and a nine-concert UK tour with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductors with whom Nikolai Demidenko has worked include Andrey Boreyko, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Thierry Fischer, Daniel Harding, Manfred Honeck, Mariss Jansons, Okko Kamu, Yakov Kreizberg, Alexander Lazarev, Susanna Mälkki, Sir Roger Norrington, Gianandrea Noseda, Gerard Schwarz, Leif Segerstam, Evgeny Svetlanov, Yan Pascal Tortelier & Osmo Vanska. Nikolai Demidenko has given recitals in Amsterdam, Bilbao, Bremen, Brisbane, Bristol, Edinburgh, Madrid, Melbourne, Pamplona, Perth, Prague, Seville, Sydney, Toronto & Zaragoza; the Al Bustan, Belfast, Città del Castello, Lichfield, New Zealand, Norfolk & Norwich, Prague Spring, Singapore International Piano, Sintra & Snape Maltings Easter Festivals as well as the Chopin Festivals of Duszniki, Bagatelles in Paris, Nohant & Valldemossa. He made his New York début at the Frick Collection in 2001 and plays annually in the Herkulessaal in Munich. Nikolai Demidenko's frequent Wigmore Hall recitals have included his six-part series entitled Piano Masterworks which won a Royal Philharmonic Society Award. He also appears regularly in both the London International Piano series at the Royal Festival Hall and the Great Performers series at the Barbican Concert Hall. In June 1999 the Barbican Concert Hall and the Cité de la Musique in Paris invited him to take part in an innovative project performing Beethoven's Diabelli Variations with the Twyla Tharp Dance Company. The success of this collaboration let to an invitation from the Los Angeles Performing Arts Center for Nikolai Demidenko to perform Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata with the Twyla Tharp Dance Company in June 2001. He returns to the Barbican's Great Performers series in October 2004 with an all-Beethoven programme which includes the Diabelli Variations. For Hyperion Records Nikolai Demidenko has recorded albums of Bach-Busoni, Chopin, Clementi, Liszt, Medtner, Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Schubert & Schumann, a 'Live at Wigmore' double album of the 'Piano Masterworks' series, and concertos by Chopin, Medtner, Scriabin, Tchaikovsky & Weber as well as the complete Prokofiev Concertos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alexander Lazarev. For the Munich-based AGPL label he has recorded Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata; the next project for this label is an album of Scarlatti Sonatas to be released in Autumn 2004. Current and forthcoming appearances include recitals in Brisbane, Charlottesville Virginia, Hong Kong, Philharmonic Hall Liverpool & Bridgewater Hall Manchester and performances at the festivals of Båstad, Bayreuth, Canterbury, Duszniki, Newbury Spring, Petworth, Schwetzingen, Swansea & Windsor. As well as a UK tour with the Russian State Symphony Orchestra he plays with the Bournemouth, Hallé, São Paulo, Singapore & Spanish National Symphony and the Auckland, Royal Liverpool, Oslo & Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestras. Ongoing highlights for Nikolai Demidenko are his performances with the St Petersburg Philharmonic and Yuri Temirkanov at the Philharmonic Hall Berlin, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Barbican Concert Hall London, Bridgewater Hall Manchester, Santa Caecilia Rome & the Great Hall of St Petersburg. "His extraordinary intimacy with the piano, which withholds no secrets of keyboard brilliance or expressive colouring from him, maximises the potential in the scoring, however modest or extravagant, of whatever he chooses to play." Gerald Larner, The Times Contact details and further information E-mail Representative Representation: Georgina Ivor Associates, 28 Old Devonshire Road London SW12 9RB UK Telephone: + 44 (020) 8673 7179 Fax: + 44 (020) 8675 8058 For further details, see Georgina Ivor Associates Georgina Ivor Becky Farrar Back to Directory home page