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, Julius Drake and Ronan O'Hora, and took part in many festivals including the Orford Academy, Virtuoso & Belcanto, Fontainebleau, Chamberlab Montecastelli, 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, and the International Summer Academy at the Anton Bruckner Private University (Linz) in 2024. In 2025 she was the Korrepetitorin in the youth production of opera Maria Stuarda as part of Salzburger Festspiele: Opern Camps. She is also an active accompanist for various choirs across Salzburg, and has performed in the Salzburger Dom with MozartChor Salzburg and ProVobis. Since October 2024 Anastasia works as a collaborative pianist and coach for the strings department 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. Her Lied-duo with baritone Filippo Turkheimer made it to the semifinals of the International Liedduo Competition in Groningen, Netherlands (2024) and most recently performed at Oxford University  (England) and in Porto (Portugal). She is the founder of Trio Claudel, with whom she travelled to Brazil in August 2025 for a special social outreach project and educational tour, generously supported by the Ensemble Stipendium of the Mozarteum University. Anastasia enjoys a busy career as a collaborative pianist and chamber musician, and in the 2025/26 season she will perform with various chamber music partners in Germany, Austria, Italy and England.​​​​​​

 

 

 

August 2025