Denis Kozhukhin

Denis Kozhukhin (born in Nizhny Novgorod, 1986) is a Russian pianist who was awarded third prize in the 2006 Leeds International Piano Competition. He was also awarded first prize in the 2010 Belgian Queen Elisabeth Competition for piano. Kozhukhin was a pupil at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid studying with Dmitri Bashkirov and Claudio Martínez Mehner.