Biography

Last October Nuron Mukumi released his second CD “Tchaikovsky – 18 Pieces for Piano” on Prospero Classical,  which he recorded at the Teldex Studio in Berlin with the Tonmeister Martin Sauer . The CD was nominated for the Preis der deutschen Schallplatten Kritik 1/2023 and for the Opus Klassik 2023 in two categories – “Young Artist of the Year” & “Solo Instrument”.

At the same time Nuron was on tour with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, performing Liszt’s 1^st Piano Concerto in Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany and finally in Austria, at the Brucknerhaus in Linz.

This Season 2023/24 Nuron is on tour with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra in Germany, performing among other places in the Cologne Philharmonic Hall and giving recitals at the Brucknerhaus in Linz (Austria) and in the Frauenkirche in Dresden (Germany).

The German-Uzbek Pianist Nuron Mukumi was born in 1996 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He began playing the piano at the age of six in the class of Prof. Tamara Popovich in Tashkent. A year later, he began conducting lessons with Prof. Vladimir Neymer.

Nuron’s “take-off” from Uzbekistan to Europe was made possibly by a video of a concert in which, as an 8 year old boy, he conducted the National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan whilst also playing the piano part of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D Minor. As a result of the video, Nuron was offered a scholarship at the Purcell School of Music in London, which he accepted at age eleven.

Three years later at age 14, Nuron was invited to the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main as a junior student to study with Prof. Lev Natochenny and ultimately stayed with him for twelve years. Nuron finished his Bachelor of Music degree with honours with Prof. Natochenny at the Kalaidos Hochschule für Musik in Zurich. In the spring of 2021, he received the Diplôme Supérieur de Concertiste at the École Normale de Musique de Paris in the class of Marian Rybicki. Furthermore, the young pianist was a scholarship holder of the Bad Homburg Schlosskonzerte Foundation between 2017 and 2022. Since 2022, Nuron is studying for his Konzertexam with Prof. Hubert Rutkowski at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.

Nuron Mukumi has performed in the following concert venues in recent years: Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Salle Cortot in Paris, Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Konzerthaus Berlin, Konzerthaus Bozen. He also performed at several international festivals such as the Biarritz Piano Festival, Oxford Piano Festival, Ruhr Piano Festival, Mozartfest in Würzburg, Mosel Music Festival and at the Rheingau Music Festival.