The Russian-Canadian pianist Anastasia Kulikova is a performer and collaborative artist currently living in Salzburg, Austria. Throughout her career, she has performed extensively throughout Europe and North America, and has won prizes at numerous national and international competitions, including the Citta Di Pesaro Competition in Italy, the Hopes-Talents-Masters-Festival in Bulgaria and the Thousand Islands International Competition in the USA. In 2019, she was awarded the audience prize at the International Ravel Competition in Fontainebleau, France, and as a result performed in the Chapelle de la Trinité of the Fontainebleau Palace. She is a past scholarship holder of the Woman's Art Association of Canada and the 2020 winner of the University of Toronto Concerto Competition, granting her orchestral debut with Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 in 2022.​​

 

Anastasia Kulikova completed her Bachelor and Masters degrees in piano performance at the University of Toronto, studying with the late Marietta Orlov and Lydia Wong. During her time at U of T, she worked as a Teaching Assistant in the theory department, and was named a U of T Scholar, a prestigious title awarded to top 100 students across all faculties. In 2020 she moved to Austria, where she continued her education at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, and in 2024 completed a Masters degree specializing in chamber music and lied interpretation in the class of Connie Shih and Pauliina Tukiainen.​ Her important musical influences include Dmitry Nesterov, Cordelia Höfer-Teutsch, and Claudio Martinez-Mehner, with whom she studied at the IMS Prussia Cove Masterclasses in 2023. Throughout her career, she has had the privilege to work with many renowned professors such as Jacques Rouvier, Pavel Gililov, Andre Laplante, John Perry, Dang Thai Son and Ronan O'Hora, and took part in many festivals including the Orford Academy, Virtuoso & Belcanto, Fontainebleau, IMAL, Morningside Music Bridge and Projeto:Canção.

 

As a sought-after collaborative pianist, she was faculty at the Casalmaggiore International Festival (Italy) and the Musiktage-am-Rhein (Germany) summer festivals in 2023, as well as at the International Summer Academy at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz in 2024. Since October 2024 Anastasia works as a collaborative pianist and coach for the viola class at the Mozarteum University.

 

​Her extensive chamber music career includes two successful tours of England (2022 and 2024), and second prize at the La Follia Nuova International Chamber Music Competition in Italy (2023) with cellist Felix Rosenboom. She has also been featured at festivals such as the Barnes Music Society, the Herbsttöne at the Mozarteum and the Erika Frieser Kammermusiktage. In February 2025, she gave a Lied duo concert with baritone Filippo Turkheimer at Oxford University in England. She is the founder of Trio Claudel, with whom she will be travelling to Brazil in August 2025 for a special social outreach project, generously supported by the Mozarteum University. Anastasia enjoys a busy career as a collaborative pianist and chamber musician, and in the 2024/25 season she will perform with various chamber music partners in Germany, Austria, Italy and England.​​​​​​

 

 

 

 

March 2025