NIKITA MNDOYANTS
“There comes a time when a rising talent comes onto the scene so polished that there isn’t much to say other than to simply applaud it.”
— Pianist Magazine
“An excellent pianist as well as a wise and thoughtful musician.”
— Gramophone
“A performance of exceptional suggestive flexibility… revealing a rich inner musical life and renewing our understanding of Prokofiev.”
— ClassiqueNews
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Nikita Mndoyants is an internationally acclaimed pianist and composer, First Prize winner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition and the Paderewski International Piano Competition. As a composer, he received First Prize at the Myaskovsky International Competition of Composers and the Prokofiev International Competition of Composers.
He has collaborated with distinguished conductors including Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Vassily Sinaisky, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Alexander Liebreich, Alexander Sladkovsky and Mario Venzago. He has appeared with leading orchestras such as The Cleveland Orchestra, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra and the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra.
Nikita Mndoyants has performed in major concert halls worldwide, including Carnegie Hall (New York), Severance Hall (Cleveland), Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), Salle Cortot and Auditorium du Louvre (Paris), Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts (Brussels), Warsaw National Philharmonic, Rudolfinum (Prague), Lotte Concert Hall (Seoul), as well as the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow.
He appears regularly at major international festivals and concert series, including the Klavier-Ruhr Festival, the Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój, the Mariinsky International Piano Festival, the International Piano Series in Fribourg (Switzerland) and the Gilmore Keyboard Festival. Since 2012, he has been artist-in-residence at the Festival International de Musique de Wissembourg (France).
A committed chamber musician, Nikita Mndoyants made his chamber debut with the Borodin Quartet at the age of thirteen and has since collaborated with the Brentano, Zemlinsky and Szymanowski Quartets, as well as musicians including Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Andrej Bielow, Lev Sivkov and Patrick Messina.
As a composer, his piano and chamber works are published by Composers, Muzyka and Jurgenson, and have been performed by Daniel Hope, Alexander Rudin and Nicolas Stavy, as well as by the Zemlinsky and Szymanowski Quartets.
Nikita Mndoyants has released recordings on the Classical Records, Melodiya, Praga Digitals, Steinway & Sons and Aparté labels. His most recent album on Aparté, devoted to works by Sergei Prokofiev, received a five-star review from Diapason and was widely praised for its clarity, rhythmic precision and structural insight.
In December 2025, he launched a multi-season Rachmaninov integral project at La Seine Musicale in Paris, performing Piano Concerto No. 3 with Orchestre Appassionato under the direction of Mathieu Herzog. A studio recording from this project was completed at La Seine Musicale, with the first release scheduled for March 2026. Further performances and recordings will follow as the cycle continues.
In parallel with this project, he appears regularly in solo recitals and chamber performances in Paris and throughout Europe and is frequently featured on France Musique and Polish Radio.
Nikita Mndoyants received his musical education at the Central Music School in Moscow and the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, where he studied piano with Tamara Koloss, Nikolay Petrov and Alexander Mndoyants, and composition with Alexander Tchaikovsky.