pianiste

Pyotr Akulov

Biographie

Born in 2006, he started the piano at the age of 4. Pyotr is a student at the Moscow Conservatory's Central Music School (class of Maxim Zheleznov). He has been performing both as a recitalist and in concert. He has participated in several festivals, such as Denis Matsuev's Stars on the Baikal, Crescendo and others. He has received the prizes of the 15th Young Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition (2013, 1st Prize), 2nd Russian Bakulov Competition of Young Pianists (2014, 1st Prize), Concours Musical de France (2015, 1st Prize and Special Prize), Astana Piano Passion in Kazakhstan (2016: 1st Prize and Special Prize for the best performance of a Kazakhstani work, 2018: Grand-Prix, 1st Prize and Special Prize for the best performance of a Kazakhstani work), Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians in China (2017, 1st Prize), ClaviCologne NRW in Germany (2017, 1st Prize), and Hilton Head International Piano Competition in the U.S. (2020, 2nd Prize). He has been a fellow of the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation.