Concert III – Lukas Geniusas
Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Vancouver Playhouse
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Lukas Geniusas won Second equal prize in the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2010, and also the special award of the Fryderyk Chopin Society for the best performance of a polonaise in Stage II.
He was born in 1990 in Moscow. Being born into a family of musicians played a major role in Mr. Geniusas’s swift musical development at an early age. His grandmother, Vera Gornostaeva, a prominent teacher and a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, became his first mentor.
Since before his twelfth birthday Mr. Geniusas began taking part in international competitions and festivals: First prize at the 2002 International Young Pianist Competition “A Step to Mastery” in St. Petersburg; First prize in the 2003 First Open CMS Competition; Second prize at the 2004 Moscow International Chopin Youth Piano Competition; Second prize at the 2005 Gina Bachauer Youth Piano Competition in Salt Lake City; Second prize at the 2007 Scottish International Piano Competition; First prize at the 2008 7th Youth Delphic Games Russia; Second prize at the “Musica Viva” 2008 III Piano Competition in San Marino Italy; and First prize at the 2009 International Piano Competition “Musica della Val Tidone” in Pianello, Italy.
Mr. Geniusas has appeared with numerous orchestras including the Symphonies of Hamburg and Duisburg in Germany, BBC Scottish Symphony, Lithuanian State Orchestra, The Capella of St. Petersburg and he has collaborated with such conductors as Vladimir Ziva, Andrey Boreyko, Saulus Sondeckis, Dmitry Liss, Jonathan Darlington, Roman Kofman, Tadeusz Wojciechowski and others.
Mr. Geniusas has been a recipient of grants from both Vladimir Spivakov Foundation and Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation, and has been a regular participant of The New Names Foundation Concerts. He has been awarded The Russian Federation “Young Talents” (2005) and “The Gifted Youth of XXI century” (2007) federal grants.
