Edvin Marton

He was eight years old when accepted into that alma mater for the most talented musicians of the Soviet Union, the Central Tchaikowsky Music School in Moscow to study under Leo Lundstrem.

At the age of seventeen he became a student at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music Budapest, in the class of Géza Kapás.

In New York he won a scholarship and was admitted to the class of Dorothy Delay at the Juilliard School of Music.

While still in his twenties, Marton had traveled to more than thirty countries and played in such renowned concert halls as the Berliner Philharmonie and Vienna's Konzerthaus.

"[1] Marton participated for Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 and won the event in collaboration with singer Dima Bilan and the 2006 Olympic champion in figure skating, Evgeni Plushenko.