Kirill Zheleznov

Biography

Kirill Zheleznov - Russian concert pianist and a composer currently based in Madrid. He is studying at the Reina Sofía School of Music, Madrid, for a master's degree with Milana Chernyavska, Claudio Martinez-Mehner and Denis Lossev. In 2021 Kirill graduated from the Royal College of Music, London, with outstanding results where he studied with John Byrne and Sofya Gulyak. Kirill was nominated for many awards during his studies at the Royal College of Music and became an artist of Talent Unlimited Trust in 2020. Since childhood, he has performed in numerous concert halls such as Vienna Concert Hall in Vienna, Austria, and Yehudi Menuhin Hall in Brussels, Belgium. Kirill performed his first solo recital at St. Petersburg House of Music Concert Hall in 2015, aged 19. The most recent Kirill's successes in international piano competitions include the first prize as well as 2 award-concerts in Italy at the international piano competition "Città di Arona" 2021, the Grand Prize at the XVIII Crimean Spring International Music Competition, the second prize at the Franz Liszt Centre Piano Competition and the third prize at the VI Odin International Music Competition. In 2018 Kirill was also awarded the second prize and the special prize for the best performance of the given composition at the Classic Pure Vienna International Music Competition.