Anna Tsybuleva

Anna Tsybuleva (also Tcybuleva; born 12 August 1990[1]) is a Russian classical pianist. She won the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2015. Tsybuleva was born in 1990.[1][2] Her mother, Svetlana Tsybuleva, was a musician and art historian, and her father, a radio physicist.[3] Tsybuleva was raised in Nizhny Arkhyz in Karachay-Cherkessia, Russia. She played the piano from the age of six, at first taught by her mother, and also briefly played the violin.[2][3] She attended the Shostakovich Music School in Volgodonsk (2000–3) and the Moscow Central Music School (2003–9). In 2009, she went to the Moscow Conservatory (in the class of professor Ludmila Roschina), graduating in 2014 and starting post-graduate study there, as well as at the City of Basel Music Academy (in the class of Claudio Martinez Mehner) in Switzerland. Her teachers include Elena Vorobyova, Ludmila Roschina and the Spanish pianist, Claudio Martínez Mehner.