Nikolai Tokarev is an outstanding Russian pianist. In 2000 Tokarev won the "10th Eurovision Grand Prix of Young Musicians" in Bergen, Norway. In 2006 he received the 2nd Prize and the "Audience Award" at the "Geza Anda Competition" in Zuerich. In the same year Nikolai Tokarev received the "Orpheum Public Award" at the 8th International Orpheum Music Festival in the Tonhalle Zuerich.(for the best interpretation of Mozart’s piano concert with the Camerata Salzburg, conductor Howard Griffith). He has peformed with a great variety of orchestras, such as the Camerata Salzburg, the Zuerich Chamber Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zuerich, the Munich Philharmonic, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonique Orchestre Monte Carlo, the National Philharmonic of Russia, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra London, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, NHK Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra London etc.
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