Anton Salnikov
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In April 2005, Russian
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

 Anton Salnikov (born 1979) won Second Prize and the CenE Bankiers Audience Award at the 7th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition
International Franz Liszt Piano Competition
The International Franz Liszt Piano Competition , a member of WFIMC, is an international piano competition.The Competition is held in Utrecht in the Netherlands. It first took place in 1986, one hundred years after the death of Franz Liszt...

 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 (Évry), 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 Gornostayeva
Vera Gornostayeva
Vera Gornostayeva is a Russian pianist and pedagogue.Emeritus Artist of the Russian Federation, Gornostaeva is a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where her teacher was the legendary Heinrich Neuhaus....

. Since 1997, he has studied with professor Sergei Dorensky
Sergei Dorensky
Sergei Dorensky is a Russian pianist.He was trained under Grigory Ginsburg at the Moscow Conservatory. Dorensky was awarded a Gold Medal at the 5th World Festival of Youth and Students and the 1957 Rio de Janeiro Competition's 2nd Prize, which allowed him to perform through Western Europe and...

 at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory
Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...

. 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.

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