Within the framework of the Music for Future Classical Music Academy, famous pianist Vladimir Ovchinnikovcwill hold master classes for the scholarship holders of the Foundation on October 20 (tuesday), from 16AM to 19PM. The master classes will take place in Tatyana Hayrapetyan Concert Hall, at Tchaikovsky Specialized Secondary Music School. The event is supported by the European Foundation for Support of Culture (EUFSC).

Master classes are open to students of musical institutions. Those applicants who didn't pass the scholarship competition can also be present at master classes as passive listeners.

Entrance to master classes is allowed only in masks.

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A winner of top prizes at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and Leeds International Piano Competition (1987), Ovchinnikov is also a laureate of the Concours Musical International de Montréal, and the International Chamber Ensembles Competition in Vercelli. It was his success at Leeds, however, that established his international career and was followed by a triumphant début performance in London in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen.

For several years he was the Guest Professor of Piano at the Royal Northern College of Music in England. Currently he is the Resident Professor of piano at the Moscow Conservatory, Moscow State University in Russia and guest professor of piano at Sakuyo University, Japan.

In 2005 Vladimir Ovchinnikov received Russia’s highest award and honor for Musicians – the title National Artist of Russia awarded by the President of Russia.