Viacheslav Shelepov – fortepiano Viacheslav Shelepov nam deel aan het Geelvinck Fortepiano Concours 2015 en was de winnaar van de Stanley Hoogland Square Piano Award. Afgelopen augustus won hij, samen met Naruhiko Kawasaki ex aequo de Tweede Prijs van het prestigieuze MAf / Musica Antiqua Fortepiano Concours in Brugge. Viacheslav was born in 1991 in Barnaul, Russia. He graduated the Academic Music College (Moscow) and Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the Faculty of historical and modern performing arts. He studied fortepiano with Alexei Lubimov and Alexei Shevchenko, harpsichord with Maria Uspenskaya, modern piano with Sergey Kasprov. Viacheslav is the prizewinner of several competitions such as: International Piano Competition “Hopes, talents, masters” (Bulgaria,2007) the 2nd prize. M. Yudina International Piano Competition – (St. Petersburg, 2009) the 1st prize. Stanley Hoogland Square Piano Award – (Amsterdam, 2015) the 1 prize. International Competition Musica Antiqua –(Brugge,2016) the 2 prize and the prize of the audience.