Andrei Nikolsky

Who was Andrei Nikolsky?

Andrei Vladimirovich Nikolsky was a Russian pianist.

After receiving his first piano lessons at the age of five, Nikolsky entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1976, where his teachers included Heinrich Neuhaus and Lev Naumov. He also studied with Hans Leygraf at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Nikolsky won second prize at the Concours Lond-Thibaud in 1979, as well as first prize at the Concours International Reine Elisabeth in 1987. He died in a car accident in 1995.

Some of his recordings include the Chopin preludes, Sonata No. 2 and Rachmaninoff Sonata No. 2