Alexey Melnikov

In 1996 was accepted to the Gnessin Special Music School (class of Tatiana Shklovskaya). Still being a student participated in many competitions including Carl Czerny International Competition in Prague (second prize). In 2008-2013 had studied at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory under the tutelage of Sergei Dorensky, Nikolai Lugansky, Pavel Nerses’yan and Andrei Pisarev.

A laureate of the Vera Lothar-Shevchenko Memorial International Piano Competition in Novosibirsk (2011, second prize), the Cantu International Piano and Orchestra Competition (Italy, first prize), the San Marino International Piano Competition (2014, first prize, the audience prize, the Critic's Jury prize and the Orchestra prize), the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition (2015, third prize). A winner of the II Manhattan International Music Competition (2017).