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Born in April 1972 into a family of research scientists, Nikolai Lugansky was five when his innate musicality appeared, to the utter astonishment of his parents.

Lugansky says he was “simply predestined to be a pianist.” He recalls an incident sometime before he had even been taught how to read music. At a neighbor’s house, he sat down at the piano and played a Beethoven sonata from memory—he had learned the piece entirely by ear.

Soon afterwards he was taking piano lessons.

At seven he entered the Central School of Music in Moscow.

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Five years later, he began studying with the world-renowned pianist Tatiana Nikolaeva, at the Moscow conservatory.

In March 1988, he won first prize at the First All-Union Competition of Music School Students in Tbilisi.

In July of the same year he won the Silver Medal at the 8th International Bach Competition in Leipzig. Two years later he was awarded Second Prize at the Rachmaninov