VADIM PEACEMAN

Vadim was born in 1969 in Baku, in the former USSR. He started to play the piano at the age of five, making his concert début at the age of nine with the Baku Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1983 he received the First Prize in the annual Republic Music Festival for young musicians, and in the same year was awarded First Prize in the Young Pianist Competition. In 1987 he began studying at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St Petersburg and in 1992 he continued his studies at the Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv. In 1995 he was awarded a scholarship by the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music to study on a Postgraduate Course of Advanced Studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London, under Christopher Elton. During this time he won the Christopher Carpenter Recital Prize, the Myra Hess Trust Award and Second Prize at the Inter-Collegiate Beethoven Competition in London. Since moving to Britain he has performed extensively as a soloist, accompanist and in chamber music throughout the United Kingdom, Israel, Europe and the United States.