These concerts are the North Carolina Symphony debut for Denis Kozhukhin.
Belgian pianist Denis Kozhukhin will perform this season with orchestras including the Copenhagen Philharmonic and London’s Philharmonia. He began the 2024/25 season with a return to the BBC Proms and a debut at the Hollywood Bowl, later returning to the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and touring Spain with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra. He also gave recitals at venues including Carnegie Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, BOZAR Brussels, Vienna’s Musikverein, Philharmonie Paris and Cologne, Stockholm’s Konserthus, Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal, and Wigmore Hall in London.
In 2023, Kozhukhin joined the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in a celebration of the composer’s 150th birthday. Recent highlights also include performances with the Oslo Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfònica de Barcelona, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Dallas and Melbourne symphony orchestras, San Francisco Symphony, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Frankfurt’s hr-Sinfonieorchester, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, and WDR Sinfonieorchester, among others. Away from the piano, Kozhukhin has also begun to appear as a conductor.
Since winning the Queen Elizabeth Competition in 2010, Kozukhin has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and Staatskapelle Berlin. He regularly appears at music festivals including Verbier Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Grafenegg Festival, Dresden Music Festival, Intonations International Chamber Music Festival, Tsinandali, Ruhr Piano Festival, Festival de Lanaudière, and Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
Kozhukhin’s discography spans works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Ravel, and Gershwin. A graduate of the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, he further honed his skills at the International Piano Academy Lake Como.