Aidan Mikdad

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Dutch pianist Aidan Mikdad was born on 19 November 2001. In July 2023, he received ‘The Queen’s recommendation for excellence’ at his graduation ceremony from the Royal Academy of Music (University of London) and received a Master of Arts in Performance with Distinction. He also received DipRAM from the Royal Academy of Music after an outstanding mark (97/100) in the Final Recital. Between 2021 and 2023, he studied with Professor Joanna MacGregor at the Royal Academy of Music, where he received the prestigious Bicentenary Scholarship for Graduate Studies. In June 2021, he graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music with Professor Naum Grubert, earning a Bachelor of Music degree with a perfect score (10/10) and the highest distinction of “summa cum laude”. He has been resuming lessons with professor Naum Grubert at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music since 2023.

Aidan has participated in international piano competitions since childhood and has won numerous prizes. At the age of 11, he won the first prize of the Royal Concertgebouw Competition. The following year, he won first prize of the Lagny-sur-Marne International Piano Competition, and in 2015 he received the Klavier-Festival Ruhr Scholarship, awarded to him by pianist Hélène Grimaud. He won the first prize of the Premio Internazionale Pianistico “A. Scriabin” (2016) competing against pianists up to the age of thirty-five. In 2017, he won the prestigious Royal Concertgebouw Young Talent Award and also received the Tabor Foundation Piano Award from the Verbier Festival, in recognition of his exceptional potential. In 2018, he won the Pnina Salzman Memorial Prize at the Tel Hai International Piano Masterclasses in Israel. He was ranked fourth at the Maria Canals Competition 2019 in Barcelona and received the Isaac Albeniz Prize. In May 2021, he participated in the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition, where he was the youngest semi-finalist. In June 2023, he won first prize in the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Competition.

Over the years, he has been mentored by Sergei Babayan, Dmitri Bashkirov, Nelson Goerner, Richard Goode, Klaus Hellwig, Martin Helmchen, Claudio Martinez Mehner, Ferenc Rados, Sir András Schiff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Igor Levit and Arie Vardi.

Aidan has given recitals in Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, Spain, the United States and Switzerland.

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Biography

Dutch pianist Aidan Mikdad was born on 19 November 2001. In July 2023, he received ‘The Queen’s recommendation for excellence’ at his graduation ceremony from the Royal Academy of Music (University of London) and received a Master of Arts in Performance with Distinction. He also received DipRAM from the Royal Academy of Music after an outstanding mark (97/100) in the Final Recital. Between 2021 and 2023, he studied with Professor Joanna MacGregor at the Royal Academy of Music, where he received the prestigious Bicentenary Scholarship for Graduate Studies. In June 2021, he graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music with Professor Naum Grubert, earning a Bachelor of Music degree with a perfect score (10/10) and the highest distinction of “summa cum laude”. He has been resuming lessons with professor Naum Grubert at the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music since 2023.

Aidan has participated in international piano competitions since childhood and has won numerous prizes. At the age of 11, he won the first prize of the Royal Concertgebouw Competition. The following year, he won first prize of the Lagny-sur-Marne International Piano Competition, and in 2015 he received the Klavier-Festival Ruhr Scholarship, awarded to him by pianist Hélène Grimaud. He won the first prize of the Premio Internazionale Pianistico “A. Scriabin” (2016) competing against pianists up to the age of thirty-five. In 2017, he won the prestigious Royal Concertgebouw Young Talent Award and also received the Tabor Foundation Piano Award from the Verbier Festival, in recognition of his exceptional potential. In 2018, he won the Pnina Salzman Memorial Prize at the Tel Hai International Piano Masterclasses in Israel. He was ranked fourth at the Maria Canals Competition 2019 in Barcelona and received the Isaac Albeniz Prize. In May 2021, he participated in the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition, where he was the youngest semi-finalist. In June 2023, he won first prize in the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Competition.

Over the years, he has been mentored by Sergei Babayan, Dmitri Bashkirov, Nelson Goerner, Richard Goode, Klaus Hellwig, Martin Helmchen, Claudio Martinez Mehner, Ferenc Rados, Sir András Schiff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Igor Levit and Arie Vardi.

Aidan has given recitals in Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, Spain, the United States and Switzerland.