Irina Kulikova

Irina Kulikova was born in 1982 in Chelyabinsk Russia, the daughter of a musical family, and at the age of six commenced studying the Guitar. In 1992 she was admitted into the International Organization “New Names” and in October the same year she won the first prize for young guitar players at the International Competition in Chelyabinsk. This was followed in 1993 by participating in both a regional and a television competition winning first prize in both and in 1994 she won three first prizes, “Ural Guitars” Chelyabinsk, “Siberian Guitar Players” Novosibirsk and “International Guitar in Russia” in Voronezh. As the winner of international competitions Irina Kulikova was invited the same year to perform in a number of concerts in Italy and in 1995 she received invitations to play at gala concerts in Russia.

In the following year Irina Kulikova was invited to the 11th International Guitar Festival in Poland where a transmission of the concert was shown on national television. Later the same year and in 1997 she took part in the “International Festival of Classic Guitars” in England and performed solo in a number of concerts. Irina Kulikova has been in Master Classes with such famous names as: Eliot Fisk, Jose Maria Gallardo del Rey, David Russell, Sergio Assad, Kshyhtoph Peleh and John Mills.

In December 1998 she received a first prize by the “Open Competition S. Saidascheva” in Kazan, Tatarstan. From 1998 to 2000 Irina Kulikova studied at the “Tchaikovsky College” in Chelyabinsk principal guitar under Professor Victor Kozlov and achieved excellent results. Since 2000 she has been studying at the at the “Gnessin Academy” in Moscow principal guitar under Professor Vladimir Chlopovsky and has also taken part in a number of concerts in well known cities in Russia as well as in Italy, England, Poland, Holland, Austria, Spain and the USA. She has recently recorded a CD together with her teacher Vladimir Chlopovsky. This CD was recorded in Peter Kondraschin’s Studio with the Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mak Ka Lok and published in Hong Kong under the title “The Popular Classical Pieces”. From 2002 Irina Kulikova has taken part in a number of Musical Festivals in Germany as well as making solo performances at the Salzburg Schloss Concerts and in the Schloss Mirabell. She is currently studying principal guitar in the Mozarteum University in Salzburg with Professors Matthias Seidl and Marco Tamayo.

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