Miroslav Kultyshev

• Prize-winner at international youth competitions including the International Heyden Foundation (1993), the Step towards Mastery competition (1995) and the  Traditions and the Present competition (Grand Prix, 1995)
• Prize-winner at the Moscow International Heinrich Neuhaus Young Pianists’ Competition (1998) and the  Virtuosi 2000 International Music Competition (1999)
• Prize-winner of the All-Russian Hope of Russia programme (1999) and Grand Prix recipient of the programme in 2000
• Grant-recipient of the Yuri Bashmet International Charitable Foundation (1999) and the St Petersburg Philharmonic Society (1995–2004)
• In 2001 he received a youth grant from the prestigious and influential Triumph Russian Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Literature and the Arts
• He took first place and the gold medal in 2005 at the International Delphi Games (Kiev, Ukraine)
• In 2005 Miroslav Kultyshev was awarded the Order of the Griffon for his considerable contribution to music
• Winner of the XIII International Tchaikovsky Competition (2007)

Miroslav Kultyshev was born in 1985 in Leningrad. In 2004 he graduated from the Specialised Middle School of Music at the Conservatoire (class of Z. M. Zuker). He is currently a post-graduate student at the St Petersburg Conservatoire (class of Professor A.M. Sandler).

He began to perform in concert at the tender age of six. At the age of ten he made his debut at the Great Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonic, where he performed Mozart’s Concerto in D Minor under the baton of Yuri Temirkanov. For a long time, Miroslav was the youngest city resident listed in the  Who’s Who in St Petersburg directory (from 2002). He has been invited on numerous occasions to perform at international festivals including Kissinger Sommer (Germany, from 2002 to 2006) and Yuri Bashmet’s Elba-Musikinsel Europas festival (Italy, 1997 and 2003). He has also appeared at the  Mecklenburg Festspiele Vorpommern (Germany, 2006), the  Stars of the White Nights (2007), Septembre Musical (Switzerland, 2007) and International Conservatoire Week (2007).

In 2006 and 2007 he trained at the  Holland Music Sessions international Academy. Since 2006 he has been a grant-recipient of and regular performer in programmes of the St Petersburg House of Music.

Miroslav Kultyshev performs at the most prestigious venues in St Petersburg and Moscow as well as such internationally acclaimed halls as the Musikverein in Vienna, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Avery Fisher Hall in New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Wigmore Hall in London.

The young pianist works with conductors including Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Ashkenazi, Yuri Bashmet, Mark Gorenstein, Konstantin Orbelian, Vassily Sinaisky, Nikolai Alexeyev, Alexander Dmitriev, Sergei Roldugin and Eri Klas among others.

Has toured to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Croatia, Great Britain, the USA, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Finland.