Misha Kaploukhii
Piano, Royal College of Music
Born in 2002, Misha Kaploukhii is an alumnus of the Moscow Gnessin College of Music. He recently completed his undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music and is an ABRSM award holder, generously supported by the Eileen Rowe Trust, Talent Unlimited Charity, The Keyboard Charitable Trust and The Robert Turnbull Foundation. He was a Drake Calleja Trust scholar in 2023/4 and is now studying for a Master of Performance with Professor Ian Jones.
His recent prizes include the RCM Concerto Competition, International Ettlingen Piano Competition, Hopkinson Gold Medal at the Chappell Medal Competition and the 1st and Audience prizes at the 2024 Sheepdrove Piano Competition.
Misha has gained inspiration from lessons and masterclasses with musicians such as Claudio Martínez Mehner, Dmitri Bashkirov, Jerome Lowenthal, Dinara Klinton, Konstantin Lifschitz, Dame Imogen Cooper. His performances with orchestras in the UK include debuts in Cadogan Hall playing Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto with YMSO and James Blair, Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto with RCM Symphony Orchestra with Adrian Partington, and Rachmaninov’s Fourth Piano Concerto with the Albion Orchestra.
He has performed in the UK, Italy and France at venues including St Mary’s Perivale, Razumovsky Recital Hall, Leighton House, Sala dei Notari and Giardini La Mortella, with a wide range of solo and chamber repertoire.
Misha’s future engagements include solo recitals in Razumovsky Recital Hall, St Mary Le Strand, 1901 Arts Club, British Institute in Florence and Steinway Hall in Milan. In February he will perform Brahms’ Second Piano Concerto in Cadogan Hall with James Blair.
