Denis Kozhukhin
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About Denis
Denis Kozhukhin's 2023/24 season includes returns to the Oslo Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Washington’s National Symphony and Orquestra Simfónica de Barcelona, alongside debuts with Dallas Symphony, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and Melbourne Symphony. Denis will also perform recitals and chamber music at the Pierre Boulez Saal, Elbphilharmonie, Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Zurich’s Tonhalle.
Highlights of the last two seasons include performances with San Francisco Symphony, 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, working Rafael Payare, Alain Altintoglu, Cristian Măcelaru, Hannu Lintu, Dalia Stasevska and Santtu-Matias Rouvali among others.
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.
Representation
Season Highlights
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Denis Kozhukhin performs Lutosławski's Paganini Variations for Two Pianos
A clip from Denis Kozhukhin's performance of Lutosławski's 'Paganini Variations for Two Pianos' with Yuja Wang. Recorded at the Salle des Combins, Verbier. Credit: medici.tv
PlayingDenis Kozhukhin performs Grieg's Lyric Pieces
Denis Kozhukhin performs a selection of Grieg's 'Lyric Pieces' in Brussels as the Flagey's artist-in-residence Credit: Flagey
PlayingDenis Kozhukhin performs Schubert's Impromptus No. 4
Denis Kozhukhin performs Schubert's 'Impromptus No. 4' in Brussels as the Flagey's artist-in-residence Credit: Flagey
PlayingDenis Kozhukhin performs Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2
An excerpt from the third movement of Rachmaninov's 'Piano Concerto No. 2'. Denis Kozhukhin performs with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Jaap van Zweden. Credit: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
PlayingDenis Kozhukhin performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor
Denis Kozhukhin performs Mozart's 'Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor' with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra and Julian Rachlin Credit: Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra
PlayingDenis Kozhukhin performs Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 2
Denis Kozhukhin performs Bartok 'Piano Concerto No. 2' with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle Credit: London Symphony Orchestra
PlayingDenis Kozhukhin performs Mendelssohn, Grieg and Gershwin
Denis Kozhukhin performs Mendelssohn's 'Songs Without Words', Grieg's 'Lyric Pieces' and Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' (solo version) at the Tsinandali Festival 2019 Credit: Tsinandali Festival
PlayingDenis Kozhukhin performs Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50
Denis Kozhukhin performs Tchaikovsky's 'Piano Trio in A minor' alongside violinist Janine Jansen, and cellist Mischa Maisky, at the International Chamber Music Festival 2021 in Utrecht. Credit: International Chamber Music Festival, Utrecht
PlayingDenis Kozhukhin performs Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Denis Kozhukhin performs Rachmaninov's 'Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini' with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Credit: WDR Symphony Orchestra
PlayingDenis Kozhukhin performs Precipitato from Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7
Denis Kozhukhin records the third movement of Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7. Filmed at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark and directed by Stéphan Aubé. Credit: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
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Brahms chamber music with Janine Janson, Timothy Ridout and Daniel Blendulf
Wigmore Hall, LondonDec 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.
- Sebastian Scotney, The Arts Desk
- 23 December 2023
***** 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.
- Nick Boston, Bachtrack
- 22 December 2023
...[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.
- Ben Hogwood, Arcana
- 21 December 2023
