Denis Kozhukhin

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General management with Askonas Holt Partner managers: Spain: Ibermúsica France: IS Artists

About Denis

The 2024/25 season sees Denis return to the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Luxembourg Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, and Philharmonie Zuidnederland. He has recitals at Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Bozar Brussels, Vienna’s Musikverein, Philharmonie Paris and Cologne, Stockholm’s Konserthus, Berlin’s Boulez Saal, as well as Wigmore Hall. This summer he returned to the BBC Proms and made his debut at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.

Other recent highlights include performances with Oslo Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Washington’s National Symphony and Orquestra Sinfónica de Barcelona, Danish National Symphony, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Dallas, Melbourne and San Francisco Symphonies, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Frankfurt’s hr-Sinfonieorchester, BBC Symphony, Orchestre National de Belgique, Danish National Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and WDR Sinfonieorchester. Last season he performed recitals and chamber music at the Pierre Boulez Saal, Elbphilharmonie, Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Zurich’s Tonhalle.

Since winning the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2010, Denis has performed with the London Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Staatskapelle Berlin, and is a regular performer at the Verbier, Grafenegg and Lanaudiere festivals. As a Pentatone recording artist, his discography spans works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Ravel and Gershwin.

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General management with Askonas Holt Partner managers: Spain: Ibermúsica France: IS Artists

Season Highlights

Aug 2024
Royal Albert Hall, London
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major BBC Proms return Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
Aug 2024
Hollywood Bowl (debut), Los Angeles
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 LA Philharmonic Ryan Bancroft (conductor)
Aug 2024
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Emilia Hoving (conductor)

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  • Brahms chamber music with Janine Janson, Timothy Ridout and Daniel Blendulf

    Wigmore Hall, London
    Dec 2023
    • ***** Kozhukhin, at the centre of everything, was just fabulous. He really does have some very special qualities indeed to bring to Brahms … Kozhukhin and Janine Jansen give a lot of concerts together, and his playing aligns superbly with her quick-fire imagination, inventiveness, sense of shaping a line in a different way she plays it. The unhurried spaciousness of the beginning of the A major Violin Sonata set a tone for the evening.

    • ***** In the violin sonata, Kozhukhin’s opening was warm... Jansen and Kozhukhin contrasted well the intimate, almost prayerful opening with playful bounce in the offbeat rhythms that followed... both players carried us through its lyricism, injected with mysterious diminished piano arpeggios to its richly dramatic conclusion... Right from Kozhukhin’s thundering opening to the Third Piano Quartet, and the dark string response, it was clear this would be a totally committed performance from all four musicians. Kozhukhin set the perpetual motion that drives the finale to its wild conclusion, with the other instruments exchanging thematic material... an intensely passionate performance.

    • ...[Jansen & Kozhukhin] excelled in the central section of the second movement, which tripped along with admirable definition of those rhythms, and in the finale, where the two enjoyed a more assertive musical dialogue... This account exhibited elegance, poise and no little power... the real hero of the performance was Kozhukhin, elevating the heroic elements of a score closely associated with Goethe’s Werther while keeping the nervousness emanating from Brahms’s syncopated rhythms... This was a truly memorable performance, capping an outstanding evening of music making for which all involved should be immensely proud.