Misha Kaploukhii

biography

Misha Kaploukhii is a graduate of the Moscow Gnessin College of Music, where he studied under Mikhail Egiazaryan. He has completed his undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music and is now pursuing a Master of Performance under the guidance of Professors Ian Jones and Leon McCawley.

Misha’s studies are supported by many awards. He is honoured to be one of the recipients of the LSO Conservatoire Scholarships 2024/25 and is a Musicians’ Company Lambert Scholar, supported by the Maureen and Harold Adams Scholarship. Misha has also been awarded an ABRSM Scholarship and grants from the Drake Calleja Trust, the Eileen Rowe Trust and the Hattori Foundation. His career is supported with the help of Keyboard Charitable Trust, the Razumovsky Trust,  the Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation and Talent Unlimited.
Recent prizes include the RCM Concerto Competition, the International Ettlingen Piano Competition, the Hopkinson Gold Medal at the Chappell Medal Piano Competition, and both the First and Audience Prizes in the UK Sheepdrove Piano Competition.

Misha has drawn inspiration from lessons and masterclasses with esteemed musicians such as Claudio Martínez Mehner, Dmitri Bashkirov, Jerome Lowenthal, Dinara Klinton, Konstantin Lifschitz, and Dame Imogen Cooper. He participated in the 2024 Oxford Piano Festival, where he received coaching from Stephen Kovacevich, Barry Douglas, and Kathryn Stott.
Misha’s UK concerto appearances include performances at Cadogan Hall, where he played Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto and Brahms Second Concerto with the YMSO and James Blair,  Liszt Second Concerto with the RCM Symphony Orchestra and Adrian Partington and  Rachmaninoff’s Fourth Concerto with the Albion Orchestra and Stone Tung. In October 2024 Misha was invited to work with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko, stepping in as the solo pianist for a rehearsal of Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto.

Misha has performed in the UK, Italy, and France in venues including St Mary’s Perivale, Razumovsky Recital Hall, Leighton House, Cadogan Hall, and the Steinway Halls in London and Milan. In September 2023, he was invited to perform Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances at the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival, accompanying Fiona Maddocks’ discussion of her book, Rachmaninoff in Exile. He also gave recitals for the William Walton Foundation at the Giardini la Mortella, Ischia, and performed at the Music Fest Perugia with the Umbria Ensemble.

Misha’s upcoming recitals are in London at the Razumovsky Recital Hall, St Mary Le Strand, 1901 Arts Club, and in Lytham St Anne's for the North Fylde Music Circle.

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