NIKITA MNDOYANTS
2013 CLIBURN FINALIST
Cliburn Competition Semifinal Round Recital
(originally broadcast June 1, 2013)

PROGRAM
SCARLATTI Sonata in G Minor, K. 476
Sonata in B Minor, K. 87
Sonata in G Major, K. 125
THEOFANIDIS Birichino
DEBUSSY Selected Preludes
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

ABOUT NIKITA
The 2013 finalist has performed in many of the world’s most prestigious venues in North America, Europe, and Asia. Hailed as a “wise and thoughtful musician,” Nikita has enjoyed collaborations with conductors Charles Dutoit, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, and Bramwell Tovey; the Borodin and Escher Quartets; and violinists Dmitry Sitkovetsky and Valeriy Sokolov; amongst others. Also a well-established composer, he won top prizes at the 2014 Myaskovsky and 2016 Prokofiev International Competitions of Composers; his works are published by Composer, Muzyka, and Jurgensen; and they have been performed by violinist Daniel Hope, the Szymanowski and Zemlinsky Quartets, and the Moscow State Orchestra. He currently lives in Moscow, where he also teaches at his alma mater, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.