Born in Moscow in 1990, Russian-Lithuanian pianist Lukas Geniu\u0161as has established himself as one of the most distinctive and compelling artists of his generation. A 2008 graduate of the Chopin Music College in Moscow, he has received major international distinctions, including the silver medal at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the silver medal at the 2010 International Chopin Competition. He has given recitals at venues including Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Salle Gaveau, the Louvre Auditorium, the Frick Collection in New York, the Phillips Collection, Teatro Carlo Felice, Sala Verdi in Milan and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire. He has performed with orchestras such as the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Lyon, NHK Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Toronto Symphony and Warsaw Philharmonic, working with conductors including Valery Gergiev, Mikhail Pletnev, Leonard Slatkin, Charles Dutoit, Andrey Boreyko, Tugan Sokhiev and Rafael Payare. His wide-ranging repertoire extends from the Baroque to contemporary music, with a particular focus on Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Russian repertoire. His discography includes recordings of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Prokofiev, Bart\u00f3k, Tchaikovsky and Desyatnikov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5352,"template":"","class_list":["post-6878","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n