Anton Rosputko
Biography
Anton Rosputko is a classical pianist born in Jūrmala (Latvia) in 1993 and currently residing in Vienna. International competitions awards include 1st Prize at the “Gradus ad Parnassum” Competition (Kaunas, Lithuania) and the Jūrmala International Competition (Latvia); 2nd Prize at the Third Open Russian Competition in Kaliningrad, the Jūrmala International Competition, and the Danubia Talents 3rd “Wiener Klassiker” International Online Music Competition; 3rd Prizes at the “Virtuosi per musica di pianoforte” Competition (Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic); as well as other prizes at the International Piano Competition in Enschede (Netherlands) and the 3rd Danubia Talents Liszt International Online Music Competition.
Anton Rosputko received prizes from the Latvian Ministry of Culture in 2005, 2006, and 2008, as well as the Latvian Award “Recognition” in 2009. In 2012 he received the Hübel Foundation Scholarship. He is a prize-winner of the Mozarteum International Summer Academy (Salzburg, Austria, 2009), which included performing in the Salzburg Festival.
From 1998 he studied at the Jūrmala Music School where his teachers were Tatyana Pavliuchenko and Jānis Maļeckis. From 2010 to 2017 Anton Rosputko studied at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg (Austria) in the class of Professor Pavel Gililov and finished his Bachelor's and Master's studies with distinction. Since 2017 he attends the International Piano Academy “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola (Italy) under the mentorship of Professor Boris Petrushansky.
Anton has also taken part in masterclasses with Armen Babakhanian, Arkadiy Sevidov, Sergej Maltsev, Anatol Ugorski, Peter Tacács, Jacques Rouvier, Matti Raekallio, Siegfried Mauser, Wolfgang Manz and Denis Proshayev.
Anton Rosputko was a participant in the Kaunas Festival in Lithuania in 2006 and 2010. As a soloist with the orchestra he has performed with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Normunds Vaicis, Sinfonia Concertante Orchestra conducted by Andris Vecumnieks, Kaunas City Orchestra conducted by Modestas Pitrenas, Liepāja Symphony “Amber Sound” Orchestra conducted by Tadeusz Wojciechowski. Anton Rosputko has performed widely in Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Italy, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Performance venues include the Great Hall and the Vienna Hall of the Mozarteum Foundation, the Solitär Hall of the Mozarteum University, the Great Concert Hall of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, the Great Hall of the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig, the Concert Hall of the Kaliningrad Philharmonic Society, the Great Hall of the Kaunas State Philharmonic Society; the Small Guild and the House of Moscow in Riga, the Great Hall of the Latvian National Opera and the Dzintari Concert Hall.
In 2021, his debut album “Chopin’s Masterpieces” was released digitally by the label Ulysses Arts and was included in multiple editorial top playlists by Apple Music and Spotify.