Biography
Since emerging during the 2000s, pianist Lukas Geniušas has earned both critical praise and broad audiences across Eastern Europe and Western territories alike, while cultivating a wide-ranging repertoire that extends from Baroque literature to present-day compositions.
Born July 1, 1990, in Moscow, Geniušas grew up amid an unusually musical household. His father, piano great Petras Geniušas, his mother Xenia Knorre, a faculty member at the Moscow State Conservatory, and his grandmother, the distinguished pianist Vera Gornostayeva, all shaped his path; he studied with her at the Moscow Conservatory. Piano lessons began at five, followed by his first public appearances at six.
Major international prizes arrived while he was still a preteen, among them first place at the St. Petersburg International Competition’s youth “Step to Mastery” event in 2002, first place at the First Open Competition of the Central Music School in Moscow in 2003, and second place in the Young Artists category of the Gina Bachauer International Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2005. A 2004 fellowship from the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation further elevated his profile within Russia. Continued competition triumphs, capped by an adult first-place finish at the Bachauer event in 2010, brought Geniušas to leading concert stages worldwide by the early 2010s.
He has appeared as soloist throughout Russia, Lithuania, and much of Europe, performing concertos with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, NHK Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and orchestras in Russia and the Baltic states. Second-prize laureate at the Chopin International Competition in Warsaw, Geniušas has performed and recorded that composer extensively yet has also documented other core works from the Western European and Russian traditions, including those of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky.
An album drawn from his Chopin competition performances appeared in 2011, after which he issued additional Chopin discs on the Dux label before recording for Piano Classics and Melodiya. In 2020 he joined the Mirare roster with a program juxtaposing Chopin mazurkas and the composer’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58.
Born July 1, 1990, in Moscow, Geniušas grew up amid an unusually musical household. His father, piano great Petras Geniušas, his mother Xenia Knorre, a faculty member at the Moscow State Conservatory, and his grandmother, the distinguished pianist Vera Gornostayeva, all shaped his path; he studied with her at the Moscow Conservatory. Piano lessons began at five, followed by his first public appearances at six.
Major international prizes arrived while he was still a preteen, among them first place at the St. Petersburg International Competition’s youth “Step to Mastery” event in 2002, first place at the First Open Competition of the Central Music School in Moscow in 2003, and second place in the Young Artists category of the Gina Bachauer International Competition in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2005. A 2004 fellowship from the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation further elevated his profile within Russia. Continued competition triumphs, capped by an adult first-place finish at the Bachauer event in 2010, brought Geniušas to leading concert stages worldwide by the early 2010s.
He has appeared as soloist throughout Russia, Lithuania, and much of Europe, performing concertos with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, NHK Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and orchestras in Russia and the Baltic states. Second-prize laureate at the Chopin International Competition in Warsaw, Geniušas has performed and recorded that composer extensively yet has also documented other core works from the Western European and Russian traditions, including those of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky.
An album drawn from his Chopin competition performances appeared in 2011, after which he issued additional Chopin discs on the Dux label before recording for Piano Classics and Melodiya. In 2020 he joined the Mirare roster with a program juxtaposing Chopin mazurkas and the composer’s Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58.
Albums
Hallelujah Junction: Adams, Stravinsky, Gershwin & Copland
2025
Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 1 (Original Version) & Preludes Op. 32
2023
The Moscow Conservatory - Tribute to Rachmaninov. 24 Preludes for Piano
2022
Dissonance
2022
Hommage to Fritz Kreisler & Sergei Rachmaninoff
2019
Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum, 2017 Festival
2018
Emancipation of Consonance
2016
Chopin: 12 Etudes, Opp. 10 & 25
2013
Chopin: Piano Concerto in E minor - Works for Piano Solo
2013