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 in 2022 has 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 2024, Denis Zhdanov was invited to serve as a substitute professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, providing piano performance lessons to both Bachelor’s and Master’s degree students. He has also secured a teaching position at the same university for 2025, where he will serve as a senior lecturer in piano, instructing gifted pre-bachelor students. He had previously taught piano at the same university in 2021, during which three of his six students won prizes at international competitions by the end of his tenure. In 2020, he worked as an assistant professor to Konstantin Lifschitz at the Hochschule Luzern-Musik in Switzerland.

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 deep expertise in both stylistic 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 Foundation (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, educational videos, and substantial piano courses on YouTube and Teachable.