The Nutcracker

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Biographical Information
Born	May 7, 1840 Votkinsk, Russian Empire
Died	November 6, 1893 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Age	53
Cause of Death	Under Dispute
Physical Description
Gender	Male
Ethnicity	French
Personal Information
Nationality	Russian
Religion	Christianity

The Nutcracker is a ballet with music composed by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The music from the Pas de Deux is commonly used as music in figure skating programs.

Programs

Skater	Nation		Discipline	Program	Choreo.	Season	Notes
Adam Rippon	USA		Men	Free	Yelena Sergeeva	2006-2007
Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Russia		Pairs	Free	Peter Tchernyshev	2017-2018 2018-2019	Received a silver medal at 2017 JGP Latvia, and bronze medals at 2019 European Championships, 2018 Internationaux de France, 2019 Russian Championships, and 2019 JGP Croatia
Alexei Yagudin	Russia		Men	Short	Edvard Smirnov	1995-1996	Also skated to Piano Concerto No. 1 Won 1996 World Junior Championships
Alexia Paganini	USA		Ladies	Free	Michela Boschetto	2016-2017
Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy	Germany		Pairs	Free	David Wilson Ingo Steuer	2013-2014	Won 2014 World Championships, 2013-14 Grand Prix Final, and 2014 German Championships, and received a bronze medal at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Amelia Scarlett Jackson	Australia		Ladies	Free Short		2013-2014 2010-2011	Received a silver medal at 2014 Australian Novice Championships
Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov	Russia		Pairs	Short	Alla Mikhailova	2015-2016	Received a silver medal at 2016 Russian Junior Championships, and a bronze at 2015-16 JGP Final
Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov	Russia		Pairs	Free	Daria Garmash Olga Tchernobrovkina	2008-2009
Bradie Tennell	USA		Ladies	Free		2013-2014	Received a bronze medal at 2013 US Novice Championships
Caroline Zhang	USA		Ladies	Free	Lori Nichol	2009-2010	Received a bronze medal at 2010 Four Continents Championships
Charlène Guignard / Marco Fabbri	Italy		Ice Dance	Free	Barbara Fusar-Poli Corrado Giordani	2016-2017	Received a silver medal at 2017 Italian Championships
Cheng Peng / Hao Zhang	China		Pairs	Short	Lori Nichol	2014-2015	Won 2014 Cup of China, received a silver medal at 2015 Four Continents Championships, and a bronze at 2014 Skate America
Courtney Hicks	USA		Ladies	Free	Jordan Moeller
Deniss Vasiļjevs	Latvia		Men	Free	Benoît Richaud	2012-2013 2013-2014	Won 2013 Latvian Novice Championships and 2014 Latvian Junior Championships
Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov †	CIS Russia		Pairs	Technical		1991-1992 1992-1993	Won 1991 & 1992 World Professional Championships
Elizaveta Nugumanova	Russia		Ladies	Free		2018-2019 2019-2020
Gracie Gold	USA		Ladies	Short	Oleg Epstein Pasquale Camerlengo Scott Brown	2011-2012	Music performed by Deviations Project Won 2012 US Junior Championships and 2011 JGP Estonia, and received a silver medal at 2012 World Junior Championships
Isabella Tobias / Deividas Stagniūnas	Lithuania		Ice Dance	Original	Igor Shpilband Marina Zueva	2010-2011	Won 2011 Lithuanian Championships
Isabella Tobias / Ilia Tkachenko	Israel		Ice Dance	Free	Igor Shpilband	2016-2017	Won 2017 Israeli Championships
Jason Brown	USA		Men	Free		2009-2010	Won 2010 US Junior Championships
Ji-Hyun Byun	South Korea		Ladies	Free		2011-2012
Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker	USA		Ice Dance	Short	Anjelika Krylova Kaitlin Hawayek Jean-Luc Baker	2015-2016
Kimmie Meissner	USA		Ladies	Free		1996-1997
Krystel Desjardins / Charlie Bilodeau	Canada		Pairs	Short	Jonathan Pelletier Mylène Girard	2012-2013
Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage	USA		Pairs	Free	Dalilah Sappenfield	2010-2011	Won 2011 US Novice Championships
Mao Asada	Japan		Ladies	Free	Lori Nichol	2005-2006	Won the 2005-06 Grand Prix Final, and received silver medals at 2006 World Junior Championships and 2006 Japan Championships
Maria Mukhortova / Jérôme Blanchard	Russia		Pairs	Free		2010-2011
Maria Petrova / Alexei Tikhonov	Russia		Pairs	Short	Alexander Stepin Sergei Petukhov	2001-2002	Received silver medals at 2001 Cup of Russia and 2001 NHK Trophy, and bronze medals at 2002 European Championships, 2001 Sparkassen Cup on Ice, and 2002 Russian Championships Performed this at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Misha Ge	Uzbekistan		Men	Free	Misha Ge	2016-2017
Rino Matsuike	Japan		Ladies	Long	Lori Nichol	2025-2026	performed by The London Symphony Orchestra, feat. HAUSER, directed by Robert Ziegler
Sasha Cohen	USA		Ladies	Free	Igor Shpilband Marina Zueva	2004-2005	Received silver medals at 2005 World Championships and 2005 US Championships
Tae Ok Ryom / Ju Sik Kim	North Korea		Pairs	Free	Hyon-Son Kim	2015-2016 2016-2017
Tarah Kayne	USA		Ladies	Free		2010-2011
Tarah Kayne / Daniel O'Shea	USA		Pairs	Free	Jim Peterson	2012-2013
Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin	Russia		Pairs	Free		1997-1998
Tiffany Zagorski / Jonathan Guerreiro	Russia		Ice Dance	Short		2015-2016	Also skated to Pizzicato Polka
Tyler Pierce	USA		Ladies	Free	Rohene Ward	2014-2015 2015-2016	Initially skated to La Gioconda during the 2014-15 season Later changed program to Concierto de Aranjuez during the 2015-16 season
Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin	China		Pairs	Short	Wei Zhang	2011-2012	Also skated to Coppélia Won the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics, and received silver medals at 2011 JGP Austria and 2011 JGP Latvia
Xue Shen / Hongbo Zhao	China		Pairs	Free	Lea Ann Miller	2003-2004	Won the 2003-04 Grand Prix Final, and received a silver medal at 2004 World Championships
Yulia Lipnitskaya	Russia		Ladies	Free	Nikolai Morozov	2012-2013	Received silver medals at 2013 World Junior Championships and 2012 Cup of China, and a bronze at 2012 Trophée Éric Bompard
Zijun Li	China		Ladies	Short	Lori Nichol	2014-2015	Won 2015 Chinese Championships
Exhibitions
Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy	Germany		Pairs	Exhibition	David Wilson Ingo Steuer	2013-2014
Evan Lysacek	USA		Men			2010-2011
Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir	Canada		Ice Dance			2004-2005 2005-2006 2009-2010	Also skated to Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nutcracker