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. This year Anton has played in Budapest and he went to Ecuador. Anton will give concerts in Georgia in September and December. In October he will play Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Orchester der Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar in Utrecht, Weimar and Paris (Evry). For 2007, Anton has been invited to Quito (Ecuador) as Artist in Residence of the Franz Liszt Conservatory of Music.

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.