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Karen Kornienko was a prizewinner at the I and II International Scriabin piano competitions in Nizhny Novgorod (1995) and Moscow (2000), and won the Grand Prix and 4 special prizes in the II International Rachmaninov competition (Moscow, 1997). He is a Laureate of the «New Names» International Charity Programme and is a soloist of the Moscow State Philharmony. He has toured extensively in Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, Austria, Italy etc. The pianist has performed at many music festivals. Mstislav Rostropovich highly appreciates Karen's talent, and invited him to perfom at the Evians festival in France, where he played Rachmaninov's III piano concerto with great success. He had Rachmaninov recital on the «Settimane musicale di Stresa» festival in Italy, took part at the many music festivals in Germany and Russia. He has toured extensively in Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Norway etc. Many of the recitals were broadcasted by the radio and TV companies (BBC, The Radio of Russia, The Radio «Orpheus» TV channel «Culture», «Mezzo» etc.) Karen Kornienko is very interested in the genre of piano transcriptions, and has given-solo programmes of his own transcriptions based on Tchaikovsky's, Liadov's, Rachmaninov's, Ghlinka's, Bizet's music as a regular part of his repertoire.
