*Nikolai Demidenko* studied at the Moscow Conservatoire with Dmitri Bashkirov. A medallist in the 1976 Montreal and 1978 Tchaikovsky international competitions, he made his British début in 1985 with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. Since 1990 he has been resident in the UK where he holds a visiting professorship at the University of Surrey and in 1995 was proud to be granted British citizenship.

Nikolai Demidenko’s frequent Wigmore Hall recitals have included the six concert series Piano Masterworks. He also plays regularly in the Great Performers series at the Barbican Concert Hall and in autumn 2006 he returns to the International Piano Series at London’s South Bank Centre.

In Spring 2006 he is re-invited to play with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Yuri Temirkanov in Budapest, Geneva and Lugano. Other notable concerto engagements include performances with the Adelaide, Bern, Castilla e Léon, Christchurch, Granada, Kristiansand, Lahti, Macao, Melbourne, RTE and Singapore symphony orchestras; the Belgrade, Bremen and Bucharest philharmonic orchestras; the Hallé; the Madrid Community Orchestra and the Queensland and Ulster orchestras. Nikolai Demidenko gives recitals in Adelaide, Brisbane, San Francisco, San José, St. Petersburg, Vancouver and Zagreb as well as his 11th annual recital in the Herkulessaal Munich. Festival invitations include Cambridge Music, Hanty Mansijsk, the IKIF at Mannes College New York, Oslo Chamber Music, Paris Chopin, Petworth, Plymouth and Snape Proms.

In addition to his wide-ranging and eclectic discography on Hyperion, he has recorded Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata and an album of Scarlatti Sonatas for the Munich-based AGPL label. In autumn 2005 his recording of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations was released on ASV Gold.