Aidan Mikdad
Aidan Mikdad (born 19 November 2001) is a Dutch classical pianist. He began taking piano lessons at the age of six at the Music School of Amsterdam. In September 2012, he enrolled in the young talent programme of the Conservatory of Amsterdam, where he studies with Mila Baslawskaja. He also takes piano lessons with Joanna MacGregor and Pascal Nemirovski at the Royal Academy of Music. Aidan took piano lessons with Natalia Troull, Jenny Zaharieva, Paul Badura-Skoda, and Jorge Luis Prats.
He won the first prize of the International Piano Competition of Lagny-sur-Marne in February 2014. He also won the first prize of the Koninklijk Concertgebouw Competition in June 2013.
Aidan Mikdad plays works of the Romantic repertoire, in particular Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt. His repertoire also includes works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Schubert, Alexander Scriabin, and Igor Stravinsky.
Aidan has given concerts in The Netherlands, France and Italy. At the invitation of the Concertgebouw, he played in both the Main Hall (Grote Zaal) and the Recital Hall (Kleine Zaal) in the fall of 2013. In January 2014, he performed a piano transcription of Liszt's Dante Symphony in the Amsterdam Stadsschouwburg in honour of Dan Brown during his visit to the Netherlands.