Anton Salnikov

In April 2005, Russian pianist Anton Salnikov (born 1979) won Second Prize and the CenE Bankiers Audience Award at the 7th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht. As part of these awards, he had the opportunity to concertise in the major cities of the Netherlands, Russia, China and Brazil. In 2006, Anton Salnikov, will play Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Franz Liszt Hochschule Orchester of Weimar in Utrecht, Weimar and Paris (Evry), and has received invitations to perform in the Ukraine, Hungary, Ecuador, Georgia in the same year.

Anton Salnikov began his professional training at the Moscow Central School of Music under professor Vera Gornostaeva. Since 1997, he has studied with professor Sergei Dorensky at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He has won prizes at piano competitions in Andorra, Italy, Germany and Taiwan. In 2001 he attracted much attention by winning both the Chopin and Scarlatti Prizes at the International Piano Competition in Cologne. Salnikov, who has now had concert appearances in France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan and China, regularly concertises in Russia and has played with, amongst other orchestras, the National Symphony Orchestra for Radio and Television in Moscow.

ee also

* International Franz Liszt Piano Competition [http://www.liszt.nl]

External links

* [http://www.antonsalnikov.com Anton Salnikov's official website]
* [http://www.liszt.nl The International Franz Liszt Piano Competition's website]