Since making his solo piano debut with orchestra at age 12, Roman Kosyakov graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Vladimir Ovchinnikov in 2017. Since then, he has studied with Pascal Nemirovski at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on a full scholarship.
Kosyakov is a laureate of many nationals and international competitions, among them the International Piano Competition “Minsk-2014” (2nd Prize, Republic of Belarus, Minsk, 2014), the 4th International Piano Competition “Russian season in Ekaterinburg“ (1st Prize, Russia, Ekaterinburg, 2015), the 4th International Piano Competition “Vera Lotar-Shevchenko”(2nd Prize,Russia, Ekaterinburg, 2016), 4th Prize of the 1st Saint-Priest International Piano Competition Saint-Priest (Lyon-France, 2017).
In the United Kingdom, Roman won First Prize and the Audience Prize of the 10th Sheepdrove Piano Competition, a competition open to candidates from the eight major UK music colleges. Most recently, he won the prestigious 2018 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition and its Orchestra Prize.
Kosyakov is now regularly invited to give concerts in France, Italy, Germany, Republic of Belarus, Russia, UK, USA. In January 2019, Roman received the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire- Silver Medal by Musician’s Company and became a member of Musician’s Company Yeomen Young Artists’ Programme. He is also a winner of Denis Matthews Memorial Trust award, Kirckman Concert Society Artist award and is a scholar of the Drake Calleja Trust.
In Summer 2019, Roman recorded a debut album for ‘Naxos’ with works by Liszt.
You can hear Kosyakov’s First Round performance during Session 1 on Thursday, July 30.