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Lukas Geniušas has established himself as one of the most exciting and distinctive artists of his generation. He regularly performs in prestigious concert halls worldwide, such as Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Salle Gaveau, the Louvre Auditorium, and the Frick Collection in New York. He also appears at international festivals including the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, the Verbier Festival, La Roque d’Anthéron, Schloss Elmau, and the Lockenhaus Music Festivals. Lukas Geniušas is invited to perform with leading international orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre de Paris, under the direction of conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Tugan Sokhiev, and Rafael Payare, to name just a few. A passionate chamber musician, he regularly records with violinist Aylen Pritchin, soprano Asmik Grigorian, and his wife, pianist Anna Geniushene, and performs in some of Europe’s most prestigious concert halls, including the Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence Festivals, the opera houses of Zurich, Geneva, and Frankfurt, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, La Scala in Milan, and the Vienna Konzerthaus. His recently released CD received both Diapason’s “CD of the Month” award and was included in Classica Magazine’s “CHOC DE 2024” list of the most outstanding CDs of 2024. It is the latest release in an extensive and critically acclaimed discography that has earned the artist, among other accolades, the Diapason Award for CD of the Year (Prokofiev Sonatas) and the Gramophone Award for CD of the Year in the Lied category. In the 2024/25 season, Lukas Geniušas performed in the inaugural Bechstein Hall concert series in London, returned to the Chopin and Europa Festival in Warsaw, gave a series of concerts in the USA, including his Carnegie Hall debut, and returned to Japan for concerts in Hiroshima and Tokyo. Lukas Geniušas, born in 1990, completed his studies in his hometown of Moscow. In 2010, he won the International Chopin Competition and in 2015 the silver medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition.