Dubai, UAE
Closing off their stay at the 2023 InClassica International Music Festival, the National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan shall take to the stage of the Coca-Cola Arena on Sunday 19th February alongside Italian conductor Gianluca Marcianò, the Principal Conductor of Orchestra ICO della Magna Grecia, Principal Guest Conductor of Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Director of the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut, Founder and Artistic Director of the Festival of Lerici Music, and Artistic Director of Chelsea Opera Group. Joining them for their final concert at this edition of the festival will be the celebrated pianist Nikita Mndoyants, First Prize winner of the 2016 Cleveland International Piano Competition, and of the 2007 Paderewski International Piano Competition. Together with the orchestra, he will be presenting a programme of timeless favourites from the classical piano repertoire, bringing a fitting end to the ensemble’s time in Dubai.
Winner of the prestigious Cleveland International Piano Competition 2016, pianist Nikita Mndoyants was able to convince with his elegance, his technical prowess and the transparency of his playing. In 2007, the young Nikita also won First Prize at the Paderewsky International Piano Competition Poland. Nikita Mndoyants, trained at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, has performed under the direction of renowned conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Vassily Sinaisky or Mario Venzago. He has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the “Evgeny Svetlanov” State Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra de Mulhouse, the Philharmonie de Strasbourg and many more. . In recital, he has traveled to the greatest stages in the world and was applauded in particular at Carnegie Hall in New York, at the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, at the Salle Cortot and at the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, at the Opéra de Strasbourg , at the Philharmonie du Luxembourg and at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Nikita Mndoyants is also a regular guest at the Ruhr Piano Festival (Germany), the Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdroj (Poland), the Freiburg International Piano Series (Switzerland) and since 2012, the International Music Festival of Wissembourg (France). After performing with the illustrious Borodin Quartet in 2004, he continued to cultivate his passion for chamber music alongside fabulous ensembles such as the Brentano, Ebène and Zemlinsky Quartets. Recognized composer and orchestrator, Nikita Mndoyants likes to share his own compositions with the public of his recitals. Nikita Mndoyants is well known on the airwaves of France-Musique as well as Polish Radio; he has resided in France since 2018.
