Denis Zhdanov is a Ukrainian concert pianist, music teacher, blogger, and entrepreneur, currently based in Austria.

The highlights of recent concert seasons include his performances as a soloist with orchestras such as the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Poznan Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, the Festival Strings Lucerne, the Camerata Lucerne, and the Lodz Philharmonic in Poland. In addition, Denis is active as a soloist and chamber musician, and has recently premiered his film, which combines piano performance, videography and animation in Kunstkino Graz.

Denis began his musical education in Chernihiv, Ukraine, where after the 1st year of training he was the youngest participant to win the 1st prize of a regional competition. At the age of 16 he won the 4th prize as well as a special prize for the best performance of a classical sonata at the Tbilisi International Piano Competition, being the youngest participant in the age group 16-30.

Among his most important competition successes are:

Competition "Roma 2009: Chopin Prize" (1st prize),
Competition in Poznan, Poland, 2011 (1st prize),
Competition "Maria Canals" in Barcelona, 2010 (1st prize and 3 special prizes),
Competition “Mai Lind” in Helsinki, Finland, 2012 (2nd prize),

since then Denis has received numerous concert invitations in many countries, including Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Poland, Estonia, China, and others.

As a soloist Denis Zhdanov has performed with dozens of orchestras. Among them: the Valles Symphony (Spain), the Pomeranian Symphony (Poland), the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra (Spain), the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Symphony Orchestra (Finland), the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and many others.

He studied piano professionally in Ukraine, Italy, UK, and Switzerland, with leading piano teachers such as Valentina Danilova, Tatiana Abayeva, Boris Fedorov, Leonid Margarius, Graham Scott, Eliso Virsaladze, and Konstantin Lifschitz, as well as he has attended countless master courses by prominent musicians worldwide.

In 2020 he worked as an assistant professor of Konstantin Lifschitz at the Hochschule Luzern-Musik in Switzerland, and in 2021 he taught piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. In Graz, three out of six of his university students won prizes at international competitions by the end of his one-year position.

He also intensively promotes his art and knowledge of piano playing on the Internet and gives online lessons to students all over the world. His expertise in both musical aspects and physiology of piano playing allows him to effectively help to a wide range of piano students.

Denis recorded a CD with works by F. Chopin for the international A. Rubinstein Fond (Poland, 2010), as well as a CD with piano sonatas by A. Soler for the company "Naxos" (Spain, 2011).

Taking advantage of COVID-related lockdowns, Denis has mastered some additional skills such as Piano Tuning and Videography, and since then regularly develops a library of his piano recordings and piano lessons on YouTube and Teachable.