Anton Salnikov, Second Prize winner at the 7th International Franz Liszt
Piano Competition
In April 2005, Russian pianist Anton Salnikov (b. 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 Hungary and Ecuador 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.
