Maxim Kinasov is an award-winning solo and chamber musician who performs a wide range of repertoire from Bach to Shostakovich. Born in Moscow, he began piano lessons at the age of five, making his concerto debut at the age of nine and his recital debut a year later.
Awarded a scholarship, he obtained his Bachelor of Music degree with Distinction from Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatoire. His teachers there included Sergei Dorensky, Nikolai Lugansky, Pavel Nersessian and Andrei Pisarev, who are his greatest musical influences.
In 2019 Maxim completed his Master of Music in Performance degree, also with Distinction, at the Royal Northern College of Music in the class of Ashley Wass, supported by a Leverhulme Arts Scholarship. He is currently studying on the International Artist Diploma course at the RNCM, supported by the FM Wright Piano Award.
In 2018, Maxim won the RNCM's most prestigious award, the Gold Medal, and most recently won First Prize and Special Jury Mention at the Cantu International Piano Concerto Competition (Italy, 2019), and Second Prize and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Prize at the 2019 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition. He won Second Prize and Audience Prize at the 2015 Gian Battista Viotti International Piano Competition in Vercelli, Italy, and the Grand Prix and Cuomo Foundation Prize at the 2014 Chopin International Piano Competition in Rome. He became a Kirckman Concert Society Artist for 2019-20.
Maxim has been a soloist of the St Petersburg House of Music since 2012 and has performed in prestigious venues across Russia, Italy, Spain, UK, Brazil and US, including Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire. He has performed internationally with orchestras including the St Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Teatro Carlo Felice, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and The Halle, among others.
At the invitation of Nikolai Lugansky Maxim took part in the Rachmaninov International Music Festival in Russia. Other festival appearances include the "Gathering Friends" International Music Festival at the Moscow Conservatory, South Downs Summer Music Festival and Chester Music Festival.
As a chamber musician, Maxim won the 6th International Taneyev Chamber Ensembles Competition in Moscow and has worked with Henk Guittart of the Schoenberg Quartet and Alexander Bonduriansky of the Moscow Trio.
Maxim has broadcast on Italian TV channels TG2 RAI and TGVercelli, and on BBC Radio 3.