Lukas Geniušas is a Russian and Lithuanian musician and pianist, born on 1 July 1990 in Moscow. He was born into a family of pianists: his mother is Ksenia Knorre and his father is Petras Geniušas.
He began playing the piano at the age of five. An important role in his development as a musician was played by his grandmother, the renowned pianist, teacher, and professor of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Vera Gornostaeva. In her class, he graduated from the Frédéric Chopin Moscow State College of Musical Performance in 2008 and from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2013.
As a prize-winner of international competitions, Geniušas achieved major success at prestigious piano contests. He won first prize at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in Salt Lake City in 2010, took second prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2010–2011, and received second prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 2015, sharing it with George Li.
He has toured widely and given solo concerts in major halls around the world, including Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Salle Gaveau in Paris, Sala Verdi in Milan, and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. He has also regularly appeared at major piano festivals such as La Roque-d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins, and festivals in Rheingau, Ruhr, Schloss Elmau, and Lockenhaus.
In 2011, Geniušas took part in the Bolshoi Theatre production of Leonid Desyatnikov’s ballet Lost Illusions, whose score gives a leading role to the solo piano. Since 2015 he has participated in the charitable project Looking at the Stars in Toronto, where performers present classical music for people in difficult life circumstances.
His discography includes recordings of works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Rachmaninoff on the NIFC, Art Classic, Piano Classics, and DUX labels, as well as music by Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, and Desyatnikov for Melodiya, recorded together with Aylen Pritchin. A CD of Prokofiev sonatas and pieces released by the Mirare label received the Diapason d’Or award from Diapason magazine in 2019.
Among his earlier competition results are first prize at the Step to Mastery international piano competition in Saint Petersburg in 2002, first prize at the First Open Competition of the Central Music School in Moscow in 2003, second prize at the International Competition for Young Pianists named after Frédéric Chopin in Moscow in 2004, second prize in the Young Artists category of the Gina Bachauer competition in Salt Lake City in 2005, second prize at the Scottish International Piano Competition in 2007, first prize at the Russian Youth Delphic Games in 2008, second prize at the San Marino International Piano Competition in 2008, and first prize at the Val Tidone international competition in Italy in 2009.
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