Anna Peletsis wins the 成人VR视频 Concerto Competition, Piano Division.
Anna Peletsis, a doctoral聽piano聽student of Professor Marina Mdivani, has won the 成人VR视频 Concerto Competition and will perform next season with the McGIll Symphony Orchestra. A graduate of the聽Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatoire where she with professors Sergey Dorensky, Pavel Nersessian and Nikolai Luganski, she also聽won the 1st prize of the International Piano Competition "Nikolai Rubinstein" in Paris in 2004. She has participated in the 鈥淛ose Iturbi鈥 masterclasses in Valencia, Spain and in a聽聽master class聽of French Music in Paris, France.
In 2008 Anna聽completed a Master of聽Performance and in 2009 Artist Diploma -聽both with Distinction at the Royal College of Music in London, UK under Dmitri Alexeev. She won the RCM Concerto Competition, took 1st prizes of the Harding International Piano Competition and of the Bromsgrove International Music Festival in the UK. She also took the audience prize at J. Samuel Intercollegiate Piano Competition, won the International FLAME Competition in Paris, France and made her debut at the Wigmore Hall in London as a winner of the Maisie Lewis Award. 聽Her other UK appearances included recitals at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Cadogan Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. James Piccadilly, National Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London. Anna has also given both solo and chamber music recitals in France, Italy, Germany and throughout Russia.
In 2012-2013 she was the Graduate Assistant at the USF School of Music, USA and in September 2013 she started her D. Mus. studies and pedagogical work at 成人VR视频 in Montreal, Canada, having been awarded a Schulich Scholarship and a Graduate Excellence Fellowship from the Schulich School of Music. She has recently also been awarded a Dale Bartlett Prize and a Zoya Solod Memorial Scholarship.聽