Kirill Zheleznov
Kirill Zheleznov - Russian concert pianist and a composer currently based in Madrid (Spain). Since 2021, he studies at the Reina Sofía School of Music’s Fundación Banco Santander Piano Chair with Professor Milana Chernyavska. He has been granted a full scholarship by Fundación Albéniz.
Kirill graduated from Saint Petersburg’s Mussorgsky College of Music in 2016, where he studied with Tatiana Osipova. Then he pursued further studies at the Royal College of Music (London) with John Byrne and Sofya Gulyak, where he is a 'Kenneth and Violet Scott Scholar'.
During his studies in the UK he was nominated for the Study Award in Recognition of Progress in 2019 and became a Talent Unlimited Trust’s artist in 2020. He has performed in numerous venues across Europe such as the St. Petersburg House of Music Concert Hall (where he first gave a recital as soloist in 2015), Vienna Concert Hall (Austria), Brussels’ Yehudi Menuhin Hall (Belgium), A. Piatti concert hall etc. The most recent Kirill's successes in international piano competitions include the Second Prize at the Mimas International Piano Competition, the First Prize at the International Piano Competition "Città di Arona" 2021, the Second Prize at the Mimas International Piano Competition 2022, the 'Gran Prix' at the 18th Crimean Spring International Music Competition, the Second Prize at the Franz Liszt Center Piano Competition, the Third Prize at the 6th Odin International Music Competition, and the Second Prize and the special award for the best performance of the composition given at the Classic Pure Vienna International Music Competition 2018.
Kirill performed as a soloist under the baton of Johannes Kalitzke and Marcello Pennuto. He has participated in international music festivals in Russia and other European countries and in several programs sponsored by State authorities (including Russia’s Ministry of Education) and has also attended masterclasses with Rena Shereshevskaya, Elizabeth Leonskaya, Dmitri Alexeev, Freddy Kempf, Claudio Martinez-Mehner, Stanislav Ioudenitch and Pierre-Laurent Aimard.
As a music composer for films he has collaborated with directors such as Alena Mikhailina, Valery Ushakov and Andrew Klementev, and in the writing of scores and the production of soundtracks for the plays ‘While It was Raining’ (directed by Valery Ushakov), which was presented by the SAD theatre (Moscow) and Alena Mikhailina’s musical 'An Eye For a Window', which won the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Award for Best Student Film in 2019. He has also composed soundtracks together with the Saint Petersburg State University of Film and Television.