Competitors

Vitaly Starikov

Year of birth: 1995
Country: Israel, Russia

Vitaly Starikov was born in 1995. From 2002 till 2013 he was a pupil at the Ural Music College in Yekaterinburg, where he studied with S. Beloglazov. From 2013 till 2018 he went to the Moscow State Conservatory P. I. Tchaikovsky. From 2013 till 2015 he was a student of V. Gornostayeva, and then from 2015 till 2019 he studied with E. Virsaladze. In 2018 he graduated from the Conservatory. In September 2019 Starikov became a student at the Imola International Academy Foundation “Incontri con il Maestro”, and currently studies with B. Petrushansky. Since September 2020 Vitaly has also continued his studies in the Moscow State Conservatory P. I. Tchaikovsky as a graduate student with E. Virsaladze. He has performed in Russia, Austria, Slovakia, Israel, Cyprus, Italy, France, Belgium, Malaysia and other countries. His chamber partners have been musicians such as Y. Ha, L. Zhelezny, S. Gabrielli, R. Islyamov, O. Gusev, and R. Khamidullin, among others. Starikov has collaborated with many conductors, including H. Wolff, F. Braley, R. Calderon, D. Reiland, A. Titov, P. Nikiforov, A. Galanov, A. Kantorov, and A. Vasilyev. He has also participated in the masterclasses of D. Bashkirov and D. Alexeev.

Programme

Round 1
D. Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue for piano No. 15 in D-flat major, Op. 87/15
L. van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (“Appassionata”)
F. Liszt, arr. F. Busoni: Réminiscences de Don Juan, S. 418

Round 2
F. Liszt: Ave Maria, for piano, S. 173/2 (Harmonies poétiques)
F. Chopin: Preludes (24) for piano, Op. 28
I. Stravinsky: Petrushka (3) for piano

Round 3
S. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

Awards received

  • 5th prize, The Queen Elisabeth Competition, Brussels, Belgium, 2021
  • 3rd prize, 23rd International Piano Competition Mauro Paolo Monopoli Prize, Barletta, Italija 2020
  • 1st prize, 5th Premio Roberto Melini International Piano Competition, Trento, Italy, 2019
  • 2nd prize in the category for chamber ensembles, 3rd All-Russian Music Competition, Moscow, Russia, 2019
  • 1st prize and the Audience Prize, 26th Épinal International Piano Competition, Épinal, France, 2017
  • 2nd prize and the Special Gaydamovich Awards, 6th Taneyev Competition of Chamber Ensembles, Kaluga, Russia, 2017
  • the Diploma of the Prize Winner, 5th International Piano Competition “Minsk 2014”, Minsk, Belarus, 2014
  • 1st prize, 22nd Young Musician International Competition “Città di Barletta”, Barletta, Italy, 2011

Participation in competitions

  • finalist, International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2022
  • 18th Chopin Competition Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 2021
  • semi-finalist, Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists, Cleveland, United States of America, 2021
  • 62nd Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, Bolzano, Italy, 2015

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