Dmitry Shishkin was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 1992. At the young age of a year and a half, he played the first pieces of music, and when he was three years old, Dmitriy put on his first concert, and at the age of six he was performing with an orchestra!
In 2000 he was the winner in the “Young Talent” nomination. And in 2001 he entered the Moscow special music school of Gnesin. In 2010 he entered the Moscow Conservatory.
Being a student, Dmitry won and took part in multiple music contests and festivals such as the Chopin International Piano Competition (VI prize, Warsaw, 2015) Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition (Moscow, 2015) and the Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition (Belgium, 2016). And he performs with leading Russian and European orchestras.
