Denis Kozhukhin

The pianist Denis Kozhukhin launched his international career following his victory at the Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels in 2010. As a sought-after soloist and chamber musician, he regularly appears at the festivals of Grafenegg, Gstaad, Jerusalem, Lanaudière and Verbier, and at the Dresden Music Festival, the Ruhr Piano Festival and the BBC Proms, and performs with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Berlin.

In the 2025/26 season he returned to perform with the Philharmonia Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall, appeared with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra under Lorenzo Viotti at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and made his debuts with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Gustavo Gimeno performing Grieg’s Piano Concerto, and with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Jonathon Heyward performing Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Piano Concerto. He made a last-minute appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra, also performed with the Hallé Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona and the Orchestre National de Lille, and gave numerous recitals in Asia, along with concerts with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and the National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan.

He has worked with conductors including Alain Altinoglu, Daniel Barenboim, Jakub Hrůša, Paavo Järvi, Cristian Măcelaru, Rafael Payare, Simon Rattle, Santtu-Matias Rouvali and Dalia Stasevska, and appeared at renowned concert venues such as Carnegie Hall, New York, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Bozar in Brussels, the Vienna Musikverein, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Konserthuset Stockholm, the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin and the Wigmore Hall. He is also making an increasing number of appearances as a conductor.

As a chamber musician he has appeared with artists including Janine Jansen, Leonidas Kavakos, Alisa Weilerstein and Jörg Widmann.

Denis Kozhukhin is an exclusive artist with Pentatone. His discography encompasses works by Brahms, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Ravel and Gershwin.

He was born in Nizhny Novgorod and studied at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid with Dmitri Bashkirov and Claudio Martínez Mehner. He went on to further hone his skills at the International Piano Academy Lake Como with artists including Stanislav Ioudenitch, Charles Rosen and Andreas Staier, and with Kirill Gerstein in Stuttgart.