Miroslav Kultyshev was born in Leningrad in 1985. In 2004 he graduated from the Secondary Special Music School of the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory (class of Zora Zucker), and in 2009 – from the St Petersburg Conservatory itself, where in 2012 he also completed a postgraduate course (class of Alexander Sandler). Has taken part in masterclasses conducted by Andrzej Jasiński and Dmitri Bashkirov.

Miroslav started giving concerts at the age of six. At the age of ten he made his debut in the Grand Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonia, performing Mozart’s Concerto No. 20 in D minor for piano and orchestra with Yuri Temirkanov.

In 1998 the musician took a prize at the Moscow H. Neuhaus Festival of Young Pianists, in 2007 he won the International Tchaikovsky Competition (Moscow), and in 2012 – the Monte-Carlo Piano Masters competition (Monaco). Grant recipient of the Yuri Bashmet International Charity Fund (1999) and the Philharmonic Society of St Petersburg (1995–2004). Recipient of the Gold Medal at the International Youth Delphic Games (Kyiv, 2005). In 2021 he won Dubai’s Classic Piano International Piano Competition.

Miroslav Kultyshev has participated in numerous international festivals including Kissinger Sommer, Elba isola musicale d’Europa, Stars of the White Nights, the Mariinsky International Piano Festival, International Conservatoire Week, Musical Kremlin as well as festivals in Salzburg (Austria), Ruhr (Germany), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany), Duszniki-Zdrój (Poland), La Roque d’Anthéron (France) and Mikkeli (Finland) among others.

Miroslav Kultyshev performs at the greatest stages in St Petersburg (Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg Philharmonia, St Petersburg State Capella) and Moscow (Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow Concert Hall Zaryadye), and he appeared at such internationally acclaimed venues as the Musikverein (Vienna), the Mozarteum (Salzburg), the Lincoln Center (New York), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Wigmore Hall (London), the Brucknerhaus (Linz) and the Salle Gaveau (Paris).

The pianist worked with conductors including Valery Gergiev, Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Yuri Bashmet, Sergey Roldugin, Mark Gorenstein, Vassily Sinaisky, Nikolay Alexeev, Alexander Dmitriev and Gintaras Rinkevičius.