Lukas Geniušas |

Lukas Geniuš

Lukas Geniušas was born in 1990 into a family of musicians. He started playing the piano at the age of 5. In 2004 he graduated from the Children’s Music School at the Moscow State College of Musical Performance named after F. Chopin (class of A. Belomestnov) and became a scholarship holder of the Mstislav Rostropovich Charitable Foundation.

At present he is a post-graduate student of the Moscow State P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory (class of Professor V. Gornostaeva).

The pianist’s professional concert life began in childhood. He regularly performed in concerts, took part in festivals, became a laureate of children’s and youth international competitions: the Fourth International Competition for Young Pianists “Steps to Mastery” (2002, St. Petersburg, First Prize), the First Open Competition of the Central Music School (2003, Moscow, First Prize), Fourth Moscow International Chopin Competition for Young Pianists (2004, Moscow, Second Prize), Gina Bachauer International Competition for Young Pianists in Salt Lake City (2005, USA, Second Prize), Scottish International Piano Competition (2007 , Glasgow, UK, Second Prize). In 2007 he was awarded the Moscow Government Grant “Young Talents of the XNUMXst Century”.

In 2008, Lukas Geniušas became the winner and gold medalist of the Seventh Youth Delphic Games of Russia, and also received the Second Prize at the third international piano competition in San Marino. In 2009 he won the Musica della Val Tidone competition in Italy, and in 2010 the Gina Bachauer International Competition in the USA. The most significant achievement for Lukas was the second prize at the XVI International Chopin Competition in Warsaw.

Lukas Geniušas has played on the stages of concert halls in more than 20 major cities around the world (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Paris, Geneva, Berlin, Stockholm, New York, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Vienna, Vilnius and others). The musician owns a significant concert repertoire. Over the past two years he has performed such works for piano and orchestra as concertos by Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, sonatas for piano by Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Shostakovich, works by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Medtner, Ravel, Hindemith. The young performer shows particular interest in the musical heritage of the XNUMXth century.

Source: Moscow Philharmonic website

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