Anna Peletsis wins the McGill Concerto Competition, Piano Division.

Anna Peletsis, a doctoral piano student of Professor Marina Mdivani, has won the McGill Concerto Competition and will perform next season with the McGIll Symphony Orchestra. A graduate of the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatoire where she with professors Sergey Dorensky, Pavel Nersessian and Nikolai Luganski, she also won the 1st prize of the International Piano Competition "Nikolai Rubinstein" in Paris in 2004. She has participated in the “Jose Iturbi” masterclasses in Valencia, Spain and in a  master class of French Music in Paris, France.

In 2008 Anna completed a Master of Performance and in 2009 Artist Diploma - both with Distinction at the Royal College of Music in London, UK under Dmitri Alexeev. She won the RCM Concerto Competition, took 1st prizes of the Harding International Piano Competition and of the Bromsgrove International Music Festival in the UK. She also took the audience prize at J. Samuel Intercollegiate Piano Competition, won the International FLAME Competition in Paris, France and made her debut at the Wigmore Hall in London as a winner of the Maisie Lewis Award.  Her other UK appearances included recitals at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Cadogan Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. James Piccadilly, National Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London. Anna has also given both solo and chamber music recitals in France, Italy, Germany and throughout Russia.

In 2012-2013 she was the Graduate Assistant at the USF School of Music, USA and in September 2013 she started her D. Mus. studies and pedagogical work at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, having been awarded a Schulich Scholarship and a Graduate Excellence Fellowship from the Schulich School of Music. She has recently also been awarded a Dale Bartlett Prize and a Zoya Solod Memorial Scholarship.