Boris Giltburg

[2][3] Giltburg was born into a Jewish family in Moscow, then the capital of the Soviet Union, and began studying piano with his mother at the age of five.

[4] As a precocious 13 year old prodigy Boris Giltburg won the 1997 Newport International Piano Competition.

[5] In 2002, Giltburg won 2nd prize (the top prize awarded) of the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition in Spain, where he performed the Bartók Third Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra.

[6][7] He won 2nd place at the 2011 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition.

[8] On 2 June 2013, he won the international piano competition Queen Elisabeth in Brussels.