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Famous pianist Nikita Mndoyants, winner of the 2016 Cleveland and 2007 Paderewski Competitions, will perform for the first time in Armenia with the National Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Ernest Ernest Hӧtzl (Austria). The concert will take place on July 5 at Aram Khachaturian concert hall and will feature Piano Concerto in A minor by Schumann and Symphony No.2 by Brahms.

As the Philharmonic orchestra reports in a release, Mndoyants has visited Armenia on numerous occasions, however the upcoming visit will be the first when he will perdorm for the Armenian audience in the historical motherland.

Coming from a family of professional musicians, Nikita Mndoyants began to play piano and compose music a very young age. Nikita Mndoyants received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, where he studied composition with Professor Alexander Tchaikovsky and piano with Professor Nikolay Petrov and Professor Alexander Mndoyants.

Since 2013 he has taught orchestration, also at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory. Mr. Mndoyants won first prize at the 2016 Cleveland International Piano Competition, first prize at the 2007 Paderewsky International Piano Competition, and was a finalist at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

As a composer, Mr. Mndoyants received first prize at the 2014 Myaskovsky International Competition of Composers (Moscow, Russia) and 2016 Prokofiev International Competition of Composers (Sochi, Russia). He also made his debut recital in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and performed in Salle Cortot and Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts (Brussels), Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and Luxembourg Philharmonie, .