Nikolai Demidenko (born 1956) is a Russian pianist. 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Demidenko studied 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 currently teaches at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Britain. In particular he is a noted champion of the works of Nikolai Medtner. Demidenko won a Gramophone Award in 1992 in the concerto category for his recording of the Medtner Piano Concertos No. 2 and 3. The Moscow Conservatory is a prominent music school in Russia, whose graduates included Sergey Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Aram Khachaturian, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Alfred Schnittke. ... Dimitri Bashkirow (born 1931) is a Russian pianist. ... The International Tchaikovsky Competition is one of the most prestigious classical music competitions in the world. ... Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (January 5, 1880, Moscow – November 13, 1951, London) was a Russian composer and pianist. ... The Gramophone Awards are one of the most significant honours bestowed on the classical record industry, often referred to as the Oscars for classical music. ...
NikolaiDemidenko studied at the Moscow Conservatoire with Dmitri Bashkirov.
NikolaiDemidenko's frequent Wigmore Hall recitals have included his six-part series entitled Piano Masterworks which won a Royal Philharmonic Society Award.
Ongoing highlights for NikolaiDemidenko 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.
Pianist NikolaiDemidenko's recital at the Llandeilo festival was a mixed affair.
Demidenko's advocacy of the Sonata in B flat, Op 12 No 1 was not particularly persuasive and, while there was charm in the slight Larghetto, the finale's theme and variations were all frills and no spills.
It was tantamount to acknowledgement of the rather narrow emotional dimension of this concert that Demidenko gave an encore which ran counter to everything thus far.
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