Nikolai Demidenko

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Nikolai Demidenko (born July 1, 1955, Aniskino) is a Russian pianist. Demidenko studied at the Moscow Gnessin School with Anna Kantor and at the Moscow Conservatoire under Dmitri Bashkirov. Demidenko was a medallist at the 1976 Montreal International Piano Competition and the 1978 Tchaikovsky International Competition. He taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Britain where he has been a resident since 1990. He was granted British citizenship in 1995 and currently holds a visiting professorship at the University of Surrey. In addition to a vast amount of the standard Germanic and Russian repertory, he is a noted champion of the works of neglected composers such as Muzio Clementi, Carl Maria von Weber, Jan Václav Voříšek, and Nikolai Medtner, as well as neglected works of well-known composers such as Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, and Robert Schumann, and transcriptions by Ferruccio Busoni. Demidenko won a Gramophone Award in 1992 in the concerto category for his recording of the Medtner Piano Concertos No. 2 and 3. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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albums

Chopin: Preludes - Sonata No. 3

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Beethoven: Diabelli Variations

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Rachmaninov: Demidenko plays Rachmaninov

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Bach: (Busoni) Piano Transcriptions 1

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"Bach, Chopin & More": Solo Piano Works

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Nikolai Demidenko Live at Wigmore Hall

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Chopin: Bolero, 2 Rondos, Variations in B-Flat Major, Allegro de concert, Tarantella in A-Flat Major, Op.43

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Demidenko Plays Chopin

Domenico Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas

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Schumann: Piano Sonatas

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Chopin on Period Instruments Vol. 2

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Tchaikovsky & Scriabin: Piano Concertos

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