Winner of the prestigious Cleveland International Piano Competition 2016 and the Paderewsky Competition in Poland 2007, and member of the Steinway Prizewinner Concerts Network, Nikita Mndoyants was awarded the prestigious Prix Nelly Lefèvre 2023 by the Le Goélands Foundation in Paris.

Trained at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, he has since
collaborated with eminent conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin,
Vassily Sinaysky, Hans Graf, Eri Klas, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Alexander Rudin, Mario
Venzago etc., leading prestigious orchestras: Cleveland, Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Armenian National
Philharmonic Orchestra, and others etc. He has won acclaim in the world’s greatest concert halls: Carnegie Hall, the Tchaikovsky Hall and Great Hall of The Conservatory in Moscow, the Auditorium du Louvre and the Salle Cortot in Paris, the Bozar Center for Fine Arts (Brussels), the Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), the Great Hall of St Petersbourg Philharmonic, Severance Hall in Cleveland, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Robert-Schumann-Saal in Düsseldorf, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Rudolfinum in Prague, Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul etc.

He has performed in major festivals and concert series, including the
Klavier-Ruhr Festival (Germany), Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdroj (Poland),
Mariinsky International Piano Festival (St. Petersburg), International Keyboard
Institute and Festival (New York), Brevard Music Festival (USA), International
Piano Series in Fribourg (Switzerland), Gilmore Keybord Festival (USA), Festival
«InClassica» (UAE).

Mr. Mndoyants also has become an artist in residence at the Festival International
de Musique de Wissembourg (France) since 2012, where he has overseen the
performance of his own compositions and performed solo works, chamber
music, and concerti.

Since his first concert with the Borodin Quartet in 2004, he has pursued his passion for chamber music with the Brentano, Ébène, Zemlinsky and Szymanowsky Quartets. His partners include up-and-coming artists such as pianists Jonathan Fournel, Alexander Ghindin and Vyacheslav Gryaznov, violinists Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Andrej Bielow and Valeriy Sokolov, cellists Lev Sivkov and Evgeny Rumyantsev, and clarinettists Patrick Messina and Staffan Mårtensson.

Nikita Mndoyants is well established as an accomplished composer. His piano and chamber works are made available by publishing houses Composers, Muzyka, and Jurgenson, and have been performed by Alexander Vinnitsky, Alexander Rudin, Daniel Hope, Nicolas Stavy, the Szymanowski and Zemlinsky Quartets, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Musica Viva Orchestra and others.

Mr. Mndoyants has released solo and chamber recordings on the Classical Records, Melodiya and Praga Digitals labels. His solo recording on the Steinway & Sons label, featuring works by Beethoven, Prokofiev, and Schumann, was released in June 2017. He recorded his first CD (of a live performance in Helsinki) at age ten.

A recording of ‘Prokofiev’ for the French label Aparté has been released in 2024 and has received the five-star review in french Diapason magazine. Nikita Mndoyants is well known on the airwaves of France-Musique Radio as well as Polish Radio.

Nikita Mndoyants received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Central Music School in Moscow, where he studied piano with Tamara Koloss and the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, where he studied composition with Professor Alexander Tchaikovsky and piano with Professor Nikolay Petrov and Professor Alexander Mndoyants.

Nikita Mndoyants is currently living in France.