Silver Medal at the XVI International Tchaikovsky Competition and winner of the 73rd Geneva International Music Competition, Dmitry Shishkin has been acclaimed for both his creative and individual approach to music. He has been defined by the critics as an “electrifying and flamboyant pianist, of great musical honesty and rigor.”
Dmitry Shishkin’s recent and upcoming highlights include Shostakovich Piano Concerto at Wiener Musikverein, appearances with the Orchestra de la Suisse Romande under J.Nott, Budapest Festival Orchestra under G. Takacs-Nagy, Prague Radio Symphony under P. Popelka, recital tours in S. Korea and Taiwan, as well as at the Bellini Theater in Catania, Wigmore Hall and at the Verbier Festival.
He has also appeared with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, National Orchestra of Belgium, Staatskapelle Weimar, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Bellini, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre, Svetlanov State Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra and Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, among others.
He is frequently invited to prestigious Festivals, such as Verbier, La Roque d’Antheron, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Radio France Montpellier Festival, Bergen Music Festival, “Chopin and his Europe” Festival, Bergamo Brescia Music Festival, and has collaborated with such artists as Daniel Lozakovich and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
Based currently in Switzerland, he began his piano studies at the Gnessin Moscow School of Music with Mikhail Khokhlov, continuing at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Elisso Virsaladze, and later in Sicily at the “Vincenzo Bellini” State Conservatory in Catania with Epifanio Comis and in Hannover at the Musikhochschule with Arie Vardi.
