PIANISTS 2009

 

 

 

 

 

Vladimir Khomyakov, born into a musician’s family, began his musical studies with his mother at the age of four. He is a graduate of the Saint Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in the piano class of Professor Alexander Sandler. He is currently a post-graduate student at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory in the piano class of Professor Yury Martynov. He has supplemented his studies in masterclasses with great pedagogues such as Daniel Pollack, Lily Dorfman, Dmitry Bashkirov, Mikhail Voskresenskiy, Alexey Nasedkin, and Vladimir Ovchinnikov. Mr. Khomyakov was a First Prize winner of the Saint Petersburg Open Piano Competition in Saint Petersburg in 2000, the Third Prize winner and Audience Prize winner of the Anton G. Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Dresden, Germany in 2005, a diploma recipient of the Emil Gilels 90th Anniversary International Piano Competition in Odessa, Ukraine in 2006 and the First Prize winner of the ISAM International Piano Competition in Michelstadt, Germany in 2008. He performs recitals as a solo pianist and a chamber musician in Germany, Holland, Italy and Sweden and in the cities of Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Chelyabinsk and Yaroslavl in Russia. He has been recorded on CD and has performed on radio and television.