| Biography | Victor Maslov began to study music when he was five and a year later he became a first-grade pupil of Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music, where his mother was his teacher. In 2007 Victor became a scholarship holder of the Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation, and since then a lot of his creative work is connected with the Foundation activities
After his performance at a festival at Weill Recital Hall in New York in 2010, he was praised as one of those people who is close to all-round mastery of his repertoire, by the New York Concert Review.
Victor was the First Prize winner of international contests including the Nikolai Rubinstein International Piano Competition (2004) in Paris, France; Musicale dellAdriatico in Ancona, Italy in 2007; and the 47th Concertino Praga International Radio Competition for Young Musicians in 2013. Additional prizes at international contests included 4th Prize at the International Russian Rotary Children Music Competition in 2009, 4th Prize at the International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Ukraine in 2012, and Second Prize in the Astana Piano Passion in Astana Kazakhstan in 2015.
Victor has taken part in international music festivals in Russia, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Turkey, Switzerland, Israel, and the USA. He has taken part in master classes with the famous professor Dmitry Bashkirov for 7 years.
In 2014 Victor started his studies at the Royal College of Music in London, where he studies with Professor D.Alexeev. In 2015 Victor became Ruth West Scholar supported by an Ann Driver Trust Scholarship at the RCM. |