Denis Kozhukhin

Denis Kozhukhin makes debut with Northern Sinfonia, tours with the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire and returns to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

This week Kozhukhin will make his debut appearance with the Northern Sinfonia. He will give two performances with the orchestra, at Middlesbrough Town Hall on 3 April and at the Sage Gateshead on 4 April, when he will perform Grieg’s Piano Concerto under the baton of Rory Macdonald.

The following week, Kozhukhin will also make his debut with the Orchestra National des Pay de la Loire, with whom he will give four concerto performances. He will perform Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with conductor John Axelrod at the Centre des Congrès in Angers on 11 and 14 April and at La Cité, Nantes on 12 and 13 April.

Following his hugely successful Prokofiev Piano Concerto cycle last year, Kozhukhin returns to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for two performances at the end of this month. He will perform Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Donald Runnicles at the Glasgow City Halls (18 April) and at Perth Concert Hall (19 April).

Denis Kozhukhin makes debut with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and gives trio recitals in Italy with Kavakos

This month, Denis Kozhukhin travels to the UK to make his debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Kozhukhin will give three performances of Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 with conductor Vasily Petrenko, at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool on 13 and 14 March, and at Nottingham Royal Concert Hall on 15 March.

The following week, Kozhukhin joins Leonidas Kavakos and Patrick Demenga for three trio concerts in Italy. The trio will perform Brahms Piano Trios Nos. 1, 2 and 3 at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (22 March), Salone Estense in Varese (24 March) and at the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan (25 March).

Denis Kozhukhin performs in Vicenza

Last month, Denis Kozhukhin stepped in for a cancellation at the Teatro Comunale in Vicenza. Kozhukhin’s recital, which included works by Schubert, Ligeti, Prokofiev and Haydn, was greeted with huge enthusiasm from the audience, who remembered Kozhukhin as the “Enfant Prodige” who performed in Vicenza in 1996, at the age of 10. Kozhukhin’s performance also received rapturous reviews from the press with Il Giornale di Vicenza describing him as “a young pianist with explosive energy, an extraordinary technique and a profound musicality… never-ending applause and three encores.”

Denis Kozhukhin gives all Chopin recital at Tokyo Opera City

Following on from Kozhukhin’s sell-out concerts performing the complete Prokofiev Sonatas at the Musashino Civic Cultural Hall, Kozhukhin continues his tour of Japan. On 1 February, he will give an all-Chopin recital at Tokyo Opera City where the programme will include Sonatas No. 2, No. 3 and 24 Preludes.

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Denis Kozhukhin releases debut album and performs Prokofiev cycle in Tokyo

This month, Denis Kozhukhin releases his debut recording with Onyx Classics. The album features Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas Nos. 6, 7 and 8, which have become known as the ‘War Sonatas’.

For Kozhukhin, these pieces: “reflect probably some of the darkest moments of a human life, moments when your life and the lives of others can be destroyed at any moment… unfortunately, with all the horrors of the past, this music and its message even today remains very real. But it also speaks of eternal things like human courage, conscience, a will to live and create life, to repair something destroyed, to love even when there is not much hope. Through his own view of life and history, Prokofiev as a great artist has created these works that will always remain as a monument to our own mistakes.”

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Denis Kozhukhin makes debut with Seattle Symphony Orchestra and tours Hong Kong and Japan

At the beginning of this month, Denis Kozhukhin will travel to the US to make his debut with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Ludovic Morlot. Kozhukhin will perform Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.4 during the orchestra’s festival, which features all four of the composer’s piano concerti.

Later in January, Kozhukhin will embark on a tour of the Far East, starting in Hong Kong where he will give two performances at the Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival. Kozhukhin will perform the Shostakovich Piano Quintet with the Jerusalem Quartet at the Festival’s closing night Gala Concert on 23 January, as well as Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos with Pei-Yao Wang.

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Denis Kozhukhin performs Brahms with Baltimore Symphony & Marin Alsop

Denis Kozhukhin will travel this month to the US to give three concerto performances with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. On 15, 16 and 17 November, Kozhukhin will perform Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.2 under the baton of Marin Alsop at the Symphony Hall in Baltimore.

In the following month, Kozhukhin will return to the Orchestre National de Belgique, with whom he will give two performances of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.3 with conductor Dima Slobodeniouk. The performances will take place on 6 and 7 December, and the second performance will be broadcast on VRT Radio Klara on December.