Alisa Shishkova was born in the year 2005 in the city of Moscow. She studied at the Children’s Music School affiliated with the Fryderyk Chopin Moscow State College of Musical Performance, where she was under the instruction of teacher Anna Varlamova. In 2025, she graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin Moscow State College of Musical Performance, where she studied under the guidance of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and teacher Olga Tomilova.
She is a laureate of national and international competitions:
2021
- the First Prize at the International Competition for Wind and Percussion Soloists “MUSIC ANYDAY” (Moscow).
2022
- the First Prize at the III International Competition for Wind and Percussion Performers “Legni&Ottoni” (Kurgan, Kurgan Region);
- the Second Prize at the III International Festival-Competition for Wind Instrument Performers “Moscow Wind” (Moscow);
- the Third Prize at the International Youth Music Competition dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the birth of Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Saint Petersburg);
- the Second Prize at the IV International Festival-Competition for Young Performers on Wind and Percussion Instruments named after the Gnessins (Moscow).
2023
- the First Prize at the International Youth Music Competition dedicated to Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Saint Petersburg);
- the Second Prize at the International Online Music Competition dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (Saint Petersburg);
- the First Prize at the I International Competition for Young Performing Musicians “Territory of Creativity” (Moscow)
2024
- the Grand Prix at the V Anniversary International Competition for Wind Instrument Performers “Moscow Wind” (Moscow).
She has participated in masterclasses conducted by Rafael Palacios, Alexey Utkin, Domenico Orlando, Philipp Nodel, Sergey Lysenko, and Yuri Yegorov.
She is a recipient of the Presidential Grant of the Russian Federation (2022) and the Moscow Mayor’s Grant (2019, 2021, and 2024). In 2023, she took part in the classical music festival “Kustendorf Classic” (Drvengrad, Serbia).
