As a soloist, Russian-Canadian pianist Anastasia Kulikova has performed extensively throughout Europe and North America, and has won prizes at numerous national and international competitions, including the Canadian Music Competition, the Hopes-Talents-Masters-Festival in Bulgaria and the Thousand Islands International Competition in the USA.
In 2019, she was awarded the audience prize at the International Ravel Competition in Fontainebleau, France, and as a result performed in the Chapelle de la Trinité of the Fontainebleau Palace. She is a past scholarship holder of the Woman's Art Association of Canada and the 2020 winner of the University of Toronto Concerto Competition, granting her orchestral debut with Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2.
Anastasia completed her Bachelor and Masters degrees in piano performance at the University of Toronto, studying with the late Marietta Orlov and Lydia Wong. During her time at U of T, she worked as a Teaching Assistant in the theory department, and was named a U of T Scholar, a prestigious title awarded to top 100 students across all faculties. In 2020 she moved to Austria, where she continued her education at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, and in 2024 completed a Masters degree specializing in chamber music and lied interpretation in the class of Connie Shih and Pauliina Tukiainen. Her earlier important musical influences include Dmitry Nesterov and Cordelia Höfer-Teutsch. Throughout her career, she has had the privilege to work with many renowned professors such as Claudio Martinez-Mehner, Jacques Rouvier, Andre Laplante, John Perry, Dang Thai Son, Julius Drake, Thomas Riebl and Ronan O'Hora, and took part in many festivals and masterclasses including IMS Prussia Cove, Orford Academy, Virtuoso & Belcanto, Fontainebleau, Chamberlab Montecastelli, IMAL, Morningside Music Bridge and Projeto:Canção.
As a chamber musician and sought-after collaborative pianist, she was faculty at the Casalmaggiore International Festival (Italy) and the Musiktage-am-Rhein (Germany) summer festivals in 2023, and the International Summer Academy at the Anton Bruckner Private University (Linz) in 2024. Since 2025, she regularly works as a Korrepetitorin at the prestigious Salzburger Festspiele: Opern Camps. She is also an active accompanist for various choirs across Salzburg, and has performed in the Salzburger Dom with MozartChor Salzburg and ProVobis. Since 2024 Anastasia works as a collaborative pianist and coach for the strings department at the Mozarteum University, and in 2026 has been appointed to the role of Senior Lecturer.
Her extensive chamber music career includes two successful tours of England (2022 and 2024), and second prize at the La Follia Nuova International Chamber Music Competition in Italy (2023). Her Lied-duo with baritone Filippo Turkheimer made it to the semifinals of the International Liedduo Competition in Groningen, Netherlands (2024), and had recent performances in Portugal, England and Italy. Anastasia is also a member of Trio Claudel, which won the 2025 Ensemble Stipendium at the Mozarteum University. As a result, the trio went on an educational outreach tour in São Paulo, Brazil in August 2025, where they performed concerts, gave masterclasses, and visited local schools and social projects. In September 2025, the trio took part in the prestigious Jeunesses Musicales International Chamber Music Campus at Schloss Weikersheim, and has been recently selected to join the MERITA Platform within the MERITAcubed project, which runs 2026-2029.