Andrei Nikolsky

Andrei Nikolsky (1959 in Moscow, Russia - 1995) was a Russian pianist.

After receiving his first piano lessons at the age of five, Nikolsky entered the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in 1976, where his teachers included Heinrich Neuhaus and Lev Naumov. He graduated in 1981, and emigrated to Europe in 1983. Nikolsky won second prize at the Concours Lond-Thibaud in 1979, as well as first prize at the Concours International Reine Elisabeth in 1987. Nikolsky died in a car accident in 1995.