Misha Kaploukhii
Piano, Royal College of Music
Misha Kaploukhii is a graduate of the Moscow Gnessin College of Music, where he studied under Mikhail Egiazaryan. He has completed his undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music and is now pursuing a Master of Performance under the guidance of Professor Ian Jones. Misha’s studies are supported by many awards. He is honoured to be one of the recipients of the LSO Conservatoire Scholarships 2024/26 and is a Musicians’ Company Lambert Scholar, supported by the Maureen and Harold Adams Scholarship. Misha has also been awarded Hattori Foundation Senior Award 2025/26, an ABRSM Scholarship and grants from the Drake Calleja Trust and Eileen Rowe Musical Trust. His career is supported with the help of Keyboard Charitable Trust, the Razumovsky Trust, the Robert Turnbull Piano Foundation and Talent Unlimited.
Recent prizes include the RCM Concerto Competition, won in 2022 and 2025, the Hopkinson Gold Medal at the Chappell Medal Piano Competition, both the First and Audience Prizes in the UK Sheepdrove Piano Competition and Grand Prix at the Sicily International Piano Competition. Misha has drawn inspiration from lessons and masterclasses with esteemed musicians such as Claudio Martínez Mehner, Dmitri Bashkirov, Jerome Lowenthal, Dinara Klinton, Konstantin Lifschitz, and Dame Imogen Cooper. He participated in the 2024 Oxford Piano Festival, where he received coaching from Stephen Kovacevich, Barry Douglas, and Kathryn Stott.
Misha’s UK concerto appearances include performances at Cadogan Hall, where he played Rachmaninoff First Concerto and Brahms Second Concerto with the YMSO and James Blair, Liszt Second Concerto with the RCM Symphony Orchestra and Adrian Partington and Rachmaninoff Fourth Concerto with the Albion Orchestra and Stone Tung.
In October 2024 Misha was invited to work with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily Petrenko, stepping in as the solo pianist for a rehearsal of Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto.Misha has performed in the UK, Italy, and France in venues including St Mary’s Perivale, Razumovsky Recital Hall, Leighton House, Cadogan Hall, and the Steinway Halls in London and Milan. In September 2023, he was invited to perform Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances at the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival, accompanying Fiona Maddocks’ discussion of her book, Rachmaninoff in Exile.
