Lukas Geniušas

The Russian-Lithuanian pianist Lukas Geniušas has established himself as one of the most exciting and distinctive artists of his generation.

He performs regularly at concert halls such as the Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Salle Gaveau, the Auditorium du Louvre and the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. He also appears at international festivals including The Gilmore, La Roque d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Ruhr Piano Festival and the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival.

As a concert soloist Lukas Geniušas has performed with international orchestras, among them the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre national de Lyon, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the St Petersburg Philharmonic, Kremerata Baltica, the Russian National Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Warsaw Philharmonic and the Sinfonieorchester St Gallen. He has worked with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Mikhail Pletnev, Leonard Slatkin, Charles Dutoit, Andrey Boreyko, Tugan Sokhiev, Saulius Sondeckis, Antoni Wit and Rafael Payare.

Highlights of the 2022/23 season have included his concert debuts with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Tugan Sokhiev and the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse under Dima Slobodeniouk, and a return to the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra under Andris Poga. He also gave performances of Frederic Rzewski’s Rubinstein in Berlin and De Profundis, and undertook a song recital tour with Asmik Grigorian, including performances at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Zurich Opera House and the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

Lukas Geniušas’s broad repertory ranges from Beethoven’s piano concertos to Hindemith’s Ludus tonalis and works by John Adams. He has a strong affinity with Russian composers, and to celebrate Sergey Rachmaninoff’s 150th birthday gave a series of concerts of the original version of the composer’s First Piano Sonata at his Swiss home (Villa Senar) and in Montreal, Bordeaux, Gran Canaria and Paris.

His extensive discography has been awarded the Choc de Classica and the Diapason d’Or; in 2021 he released his most recent recording, Chants populaires, featuring works by Leonid Desyatnikov, Bartók and Tchaikovsky.

Lukas Geniušas was born in 1990, and studied in his home city of Moscow. In 2010 he won the International Chopin Piano Competition, and in 2015 he won the Silver Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition.