Nikolai demidenko biography for kids
Nikolai demidenko biography for kids
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Nikolai Demidenko
Musical artist
Nikolai Demidenko (born 1 July 1955, Anisimovo) is a Russian-born classical pianist.
Biography
Demidenko studied at the Gnessin State Musical College with Anna Kantor and at the Moscow Conservatoire under Dmitri Bashkirov.[1] He was a finalist at the 1976 Montreal International Piano Competition[2] and the 1978 Tchaikovsky International Competition.[3] He taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School in the UK, 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.[4] In addition to a vast amount of the standard Germanic and Russian repertory, he is a specialist of Frédéric Chopin and 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