Nikita Lukinov, named a ‘rising star’ by BBC Music Magazine, is a brilliant young pianist trained in his native Russia and at the RCS where he won the coveted Governor’s Prize. Since then he has become the conservatoire’s youngest professor and has a flourishing performing career in major concert halls in Britain and abroad. His all-Russian programme begins with a dazzling kaleidoscope of pianistic colour in Scriabin’s preludes and in Prokofiev’s arrangement of pieces from his ballet Cinderella. Mikhail Pletnev’s breathtaking arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet ends a virtuosic exploration of the piano’s possibilities.

‘[Lukinov’s] extraordinary breadth and freedom of imagination’
The Gramophone