Dmitrii Kalashnikov

Country – Russia
Age – 27

Dmitrii Kalashnikov was born in Moscow, Russia. Since 2018 he has been a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Music in London in the class of Professor Vanessa Latarche as a Ruth West Scholar supported by the Neville Wathen Scholarship, and more recently as a Blüthner Pianos scholar.

Dmitrii graduated with honors from the Moscow State Conservatory in 2017 where he was taught by Professor Elena Kuznetsova. His prizes include the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Rosebowl at the Royal College of Music, awarded to a student of distinction. He was the winner of the Jacques Samuel Piano Competition (2019, London) and, in the same year, won first prize at Les Étoiles Du Piano International Piano Competition (France). In 2021, he won first prize at the Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition (Beethoven Piano Society of Europe).

Dmitrii performs regularly with the Russian National Orchestra under the direction of Mikhail Pletnev. In 2014 Mikhail Pletnev and Dmitrii Kalashnikov gave a two-piano recital in the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory. Other performances include those at the House of Music in Moscow, in the concert Hall of the Mariinsky theatre in St. Petersburg, as well as other major halls in the UK and Europe. He performed the Hummel Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra as winner of the RCM Concerto competition. He played at the Oxford Piano Festival master class in 2021 for Andras Schiff.

Dmitrii studies currently with Anna Malikova at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

Repertoire

Round I

Tchaikovsky/Pletnev           Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a

Prokofiev                               Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28

Round II

Liszt                                        Études d’éxecution transcendante Nos. 1, 2, and 3, S. 139

Franck                                    Prélude, choral et fugue, FWV 21

Round III

Brahms                                  Sonata No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 2

Beethoven                             Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110

Round IV

Tchaikovsky                          Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23