Roman Kosyakov

Roman Kosyakov was born into a musical family and made his debut with orchestra at the age of 12 with Mozart Concerto N.23 in A Major. In 2012, he graduated from the Central Music School in Moscow where he studied with Farida Nurizade and then in 2017 from the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatoire with Vladimir Ovchinnikov. Since September 2017, he has studied at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on a full scholarship with Pascal Nemirovski.

He is a laureate of many national and international competitions, among them “Young Talents of Russia” (Russia, Moscow 2006), the 1st International competition “Sforzando” (1^st Prize, Berlin, 2007), the International Alexander Scriabin Piano Competition (1^st Prize, Paris 2011), the 8^th Open Competition of Musicians Performers N. Sabitov (1^st Prize, Russia, Ufa, 2012), the International Piano Competition “Minsk-2014” (2^nd Prize, Republic of Belarus, Minsk, 2014), the 4^th International Piano Competition “Russian season in Ekaterinburg“ (1^st Prize, Russia, Ekaterinburg, 2015), the 4^th International Piano Competition “Vera Lotar-Shevchenko”(2^nd Prize,Russia, Ekaterinburg, 2016), 4^th Prize of the 1^st Saint-Priest International Piano Competition Saint-Priest (Lyon-France, 2017).

In the UK, Roman won 1^st Prize and the Audience Prize at the 10th Sheepdrove Piano Competition open to candidates from the eight major UK music colleges.

He won the prestigious 2018 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition, and the Orchestra Prize performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (2018, UK).

Roman is now regularly invited to give concerts in France, Italy, Germany, Republic of Belarus, Russia, UK, USA. He just performed with the Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra and the English Symphony Orchestra. In January 2019 Roman received “The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire- Silver Medal” from the Musician’s Company and became a member of Musician’s Company Yeomen Young Artists’ Programme. He was also invited to represent and launch the 2019 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition at the House of Commons in London. Roman is a winner of the Denis Matthews Memorial Trust award, Kirckman Concert Society Artist and a scholar of the Drake Calleja Trust.

In Summer 2019 Roman recorded a debut CD  for  Naxos with works by Liszt.  As part of Fitzroy Piano Quartet Roman won the Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition string ensembles section in January 2020.