Miroslav Kultyshev,
piano

Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory , St.Petersburg
by Honoured artist of Russia, professor Alexander Sandler

Miroslav Kultyshev was born in 1985 in Leningrad. He finished a secondary special music school under the Conservatory (Zora Zuker’s class). In 2009 he graduated from the Saint-Petersburg Conservatory in the name of N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov (class by Professor Alexander Sandler, the honored artist of the RF) and at the present time continues his post graduate studies.

Miroslav is a laureate of international competitions:

2007 - a winner in the piano nomination at the ХIII International competition in the name of P.I Tchaikovsky.

In 1998 he became a laureate in the Moscow International Festival of young pianists in the name of H. Neuhaus, and in 1999 a laureate in the International Music Festival “Virtuosos-2000 ”.

From 1995 till 2004 he was a grant holder of the International Charity Fund of Yuri Bashmet and of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Society. In 2001 he was awarded with a youth grant of the prestigious Russian National Independent Prize “Triumph”.

In 2007 and 2008 he was a grant owner of the Saint-Petersburg Music House. In 2007 he was rewarded with an annual grant by OJSC “JSB Russia” and CF “Alexeevskiy”.

He started to perform on the stage when he was 6 years old. At the age of 10 he made his debut in the Grand hall in the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Hall where he performed a concert re-minor by Mozart conducted by Yuriy Temirkanov. Miroslav Kultyshev gave numerous concerts in the international music festivals like “Kissinger Sommer” (Germany, 2002-2006) and “Elba – Music Island of Europe” (Italy, 1997, 2003, 2008). He also participated in the festivals such as “Mecklenburg Festspiele Vorpommern” (Germany, 2006) and “White Nights’ Stars” (2007), “International Week of Conservatories” (2007), “Music Kremlin”(2008), “Mikkeli Music Festival”(Finland, 2008-2009), “Klavier Festival Ruhr” (Germany, 2008), Festival in Duszhniki (Poland, 2008) and etc.

Miroslav Kultyshev performs in the best venues of Saint Petersburg and Moscow and also in the well-known halls such as Musikverein in Vienne, Salzburg Mozarteum, Lincoln Center “Avery Fisher Hall” (New-York), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), Сoncertgebow (Amsterdam). At the present time he goes on tours in various countries.

The young pianist plays together with such conductors as Valeriy Georgiev, Vladimir Ashkenazi, Yuriy Bashmet, Sergey Roldugin, Mark Gernshtein, Vasiliy Sinayskiy, Nikolay Alexeevв, Alexander Dmitriev. He attended master–classes of Andrzej Jasinski and Dmitry Bashkirov.

From 2006 he performs in the concert programs organized by the Saint-Petersburg Music House such as "Young Performers of Russia" (2006, 2007), "Laureates of the competition in the name of P.I Tchaikovsky" (2007), Gala Concert of the Saint-Petersburg Music House (2008), "River of Talents" (Samara, 2008), "Stars of the XXI Century" (2008), "Music of Stars" (2009), in the final concert of the Music House at the festival “White Nights of Karelia” (Petrozavodsk, 2010).