For our first annual Emerging Artists Concert, in association with Live Music Now Scotland, we welcome the young Russian-born, Scottish-based virtouso pianist NIKITA LUKINOV “a true musician’s musician” whose performances are “thrilling and deeply affecting”.

Thursday 27 April, 7.30pm

Thursday 27 April, 7.30pm

SCARLATTI: Sonata in B minor K27

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata in C, Op. 2, No. 3

CHOPIN: Etude in B Minor, Op. 25, No. 10

TCHAIKOVSKY: Meditation from Op.72

PROKOFIEV: ‘Quarrel’ and ‘Amoroso’ from Op. 102

MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition (extracts)

TICKETS £15, to include a pre-concert refreshment

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Heralded for the “magic of music-making at its finest” (Keyboard Charitable Trust) and praised as an “Exceptional talent” (Scotsman), Nikita Lukinov is one of the most exciting Scottish-based pianists of the younger generation. In recent years he has performed as a soloist in the United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, France, Poland, Croatia, and Russia, appearing at Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre, Kings Place, Fazioli Hall, Vaduz Rathaussaal, St. Petersburg Music House, and the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in MoscoW.
After studying in Russia Nikita won full scholarships to continue his education first at The Purcell School in London then at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2017.  He graduated in 2021 with a First-Class Bachelor of Music Degree and is now pursuing a Master of Music degree, also at the RCS.
His most recent awards include 1st Prize at the “Sheepdrove” UK Intercollegiate Competition, the Governor’s Prize for the most outstanding recital in the RCS Piano Department, and 2nd Prize at the Franz Liszt Centre International Piano Competition, Spain, all in 2021.