Denis Linnik

DENIS LINNIK, piano
His sensitivity, technical mastery of the instrument and intellectual curiosity make Denis Linnik a genuine and unique artist of the young generation. He performs widely as a soloist, recitalist and is particularly sought-after as a chamber musician. He consistently pursues bringing a fresh, unbiased perspective into a standard repertoire and enjoys exploring the worlds of historical performance, contemporary music, and jazz.

His concert activity led him across Europe, where he performed at prestigious festivals, such as the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Festival Wien Modern, the ArtDialog Festival, and the Solsberg Festival. In 2018, together with violinist Dmitry Smirnov and clarinettist José Luis Inglés Martínez, he founded a chamber music project Camerata Rhein. In 2020 it became a prize winner of the Orpheus Chamber Music Competition.
He won awards at several major international competitions, such as the Cittá du Cantú International Piano and Orchestra Competition, the International Horowitz Competition, the Delphic Games of the CIS Member States etc.

Denis began his musical education in Belarus at the age of 6 with Valentina Shetsko as his first music teacher in the local music school of his hometown Maryina Horka. At the age of 8, he – a boy from a small province – made a remarkable performance at his first international competition, which urged an honoured teacher of Belarus Tatyana Sergievskaya to notice his talent and invite him to Minsk to join her class. So he did – within 2004-2014 Denis studied in the Minsk Gymnasium-college of arts named after Ivan Akhremchik.

Yet during his gymnasium years, in 2010, Denis started to study under the tutorship of the eminent Belarusian professor Vladimir Nekhaenko, who guided him up to his third year at the State Academy of Music.

Since 2017 he has been living in Switzerland and studying at the Hochschule für Musik Basel in the class of Claudio Martínez Mehner.

Denis continuously learns and has taken part in various masterclasses at IMS Prussia Cove, the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein etc. There he worked with prominent musicians such as Rita Wagner, Ferenc Rados, Aleksandar Madžar, Anthony Marwood, Andreas Staier and more.