Denis Kozhukhin is a Russian pianist who was awarded the 2006 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition's 3rd prize. He was awarded too the 2010 Belgian Queen Elisabeth Music Competition's 1st prize. Kozhukhin was a pupil at the Escuela Superior de M�sica Reina Sof�a in Madrid studying with Dimitri Bashkirov and Claudio Mart�nez Mehner. Upon graduating, he received his diploma personally from Queen Sof�a of Spain and was named best student in his year and twice best chamber group with his own Cervantes Trio. After his studies in Madrid, Kozhukhin was invited to study at the International Piano Academy Lake Como where he received tuition from Dimitri Bashkirov, Fou Ts'ong, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Peter Frankl, William Grant Nabor�, John Perry, Menahem Pressler, Boris Berman, Charles Rosen and Andreas Staier. 

July 2nd, 1986 in Nizhny Novgorod (Age 37)