Though still a student, Russian-born, award-winning pianist Yury Shadrin has made a dramatic entry into the concert world. His path to recognition and success has taken him through major competitions and conservatories to the stages of the great music venues in nearly record time.

Born in Perm, he was featured soloist with the Perm Opera Orchestra at the age of nine after only one year of study and in 1992 at age twelve was accepted into the Special School for Gifted Children in Novosibirsk. y 1994, he had won both the Siberian Competition and the International Piano Competition in Rome, resulting in a European recital tour which took him to Germany, France, Italy, and Switzerland and a subsequent appearance with the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1996, Shadrin was accepted to the Moscow Conservatory where he studied with Lev Naumov and the world-renowned Eliso Virzaladze, who performed on the Shriver Hall Concert Series in the 2004-2005 season. He studied there for the next six years, perfecting his already acclaimed technique. The next major step was the United States in 2003 and study at the Oberlin Conservatory in its Artist Diploma program. During his three-year stay, he won both the Arthur Dann (2004) and Maracaibo International Competitions (2005), performed recitals in America, and made his debut at the Kennedy Center. His international reputation led him to Caracas in 2004 where he performed the Beethoven Emperor Concerto under the baton of Alfredo Ruheles and the Caracas Symphony in the featured concert of their 25th anniversary season festival.

Shadrin's Asian debut occurred in 2005 when he traveled to Hanoi as the soloist with the Viet Nam National Philharmonic. During the next year, he was back tin South America to perform with the Salta Symphony Orchestra in Argentina and then a move to Yale to work with Peter Frankl. He entered additional competitions, winning the Soratin International (2006) at San Angelo (TX) and capturing second place at the Corpus Christi International during the same year.

He returned again to South America in 2007 as featured soloist with the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra. He also took 3rd prize at the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati. By 2008, he had performed with the Orchestra Sinfonica of Venezuela and moved to Baltimore to study under American legend Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University and made his Carnegie Hall debut. In its review of his recital at Carnegie, the New York Sun declared that he was "mature . . . beyond his years."

Recently, Shadrin returned yet again to South America where he played a recital at the Caracas Museum of History, was a semi-finalist at the International Chopin Competition (2010) in Warsaw, and accepted 2011-2012 engagements with both the Baltimore and Miami Symphony orchestras. In April 2012, he plays a recital on the Shriver Hall Concert Series 'Discovery Series'@The BMA and also performs with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra.