Nikita Burzanitsa was born into a family of musicians in Donetsk, Ukraine. In 2008 he started studying Nataliya Chesnokova. In 2015 he won a scholarship to Wells Cathedral School where he studied with John Byrne. In 2017 he returned to Donetsk to study at the State Conservatoire. Since 2020 he has been at the Royal College of Music, London studying with Dmitrii Alexeev.
His competition successes include winning the Wells Concerto Competition and First Prize in the International London Piano and Music Competition in 2017; Winner of the Sevenoaks Young Musician of the Year 2020; the following year Nikita won 2nd prize in the Joan Chissell Schumann Piano Competition and in the Orbetello Piano Competition (Junior) in Italy; he also won First Prize in the Moscow International Music Competition 2021 and at the Nouvelles Étoiles International Music Competition in Paris; First Prize in the Four Notes Piano Competition in Abu Dhabi and he was the won the Vienna Music Competition (Virtuoso category).
Nikita has also taken part in masterclasses with Dmytro Suhovienko, Andrey Ivanovich, John Byrne, Ian Jones, Steven Hough, Vanessa Latarche, Mitsuko Uchida, Barry Douglas, Boris Berman, Vovka Ashkenazy, Miguel Angel Shebba.
