Russian pianist Gala Chistiakova is a prizewinner of more than 30 International Competitions. She was born in 1987 in Moscow into a musical family and started her piano studies at 3 years old with her mother Liubov Chistiakova. Graduated from The Central Music School (2005), the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and postgraduate course (2012) with such professors as H.Khoven, A.Ryabov and M.Voskresensky.  She also studied at the International Piano Academy “Incontri col Maestro” (Prof. B.Petrushansky) in Italy.

Since 2000 Gala traveled, playing solo and with symphonic orchestras, in concerts over Russia, France, Germany, Poland, Austria, Italy, Czech, Belarus, Ukraine, Finland, Japan, Greece, Andorra, Spain, Monaco, Norway, United Kingdom, Portugal. She has also performed on various TV and Radio programs, recorded CD with “KNS Classical” (Fazioli), “ACOUSENS records” (Shigeru Kawai) and 3 CD with “OnClassical” (Steinway & Sons). Gala has also been worked several times as a member of the jury at youth and international piano competitions. She has a huge repertoire from baroque to modern of concerts with orchestra, solo and chamber music. Gala’s main piano duo partners are her sister Irina Chistiakova and her husband Diego Benocci.