Ⅴ International Competition for Young Pianists
DENIS MATSUEV Artistic director of the Competition
Mikhail Pirozhenko
Russia 16
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D. Scarlatti. Sonata in E-flat major, K. 474
D. Scarlatti. Sonata in E major, K. 46
Prokofiev. Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82, Movement 1
Scriabin. Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 38
Saint-Saëns – Liszt – Horowitz. Dance of Death, Op. 40
Prokofiev. Piano Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 10
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Biography
Born in 2010 in St. Petersburg. Student of the Secondary Specialized Music School of the St. Petersburg Conservatory named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov (class of Alexander Sandler). Scholarship recipient of the Maestro Temirkanov Cultural Initiatives Foundation and the New Names International Charitable Foundation.
Winner of the All-Russian Open Piano Competition named after I. S. Avramkova in St. Petersburg (2023), the International Competition "Piano Today" in St. Petersburg (Grand Prix, 2024), the Governor's International Youth Competition named after Valery Gavrilin in Vologda (1st prize and diploma for the best performance of Gavrilin's work, 2024), and the All-Russian Competition of Young Musicians "Sozvezdie" in Sirius (Grand Prix, 2025). Laureate of the International Television Competition for Young Musicians "The Nutcracker" (2022, "Silver Nutcracker") and the Vladimir Krainev Moscow International Piano Competition (2025). He has performed with orchestras conducted by Valery Gergiev, Alexander Chernushenko, Ivan Nikiforchin, Nikolai Tsinman, and others.