Violinist Anton Shelepov’s multifaceted career has gained him praises from critics: “His technical skill, combined with his superb gift of musical interpretation, was dazzling” (The Flint Journal), "Shelepov, the compact powerhouse whose fiddle floated and soared... got his shining hour (42 minutes, to be exact) at Friday night's Masterworks concert..." (Lansing City Pulse.) Native Siberian, Anton began playing violin at the age of four and went on to earn Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Violin Performance from St. Petersburg Conservatory and Michigan State University respectively. Shelepov is a First Prize winner in various international competitions including Gartow Stiftung String Quartet (St.Petersburg, Russia), Tadeusz Wronski Solo Violin (Warsaw, Poland), William Byrd Young Artist (Flint, MI), and recipient of the prestigious David Oistrakh Award from Rostropovich’s “Slava” International Foundation.

As a soloist with orchestras and chamber musician, Anton has appeared in both Americas, Europe and Russia. He collaborated with prominent composers of our time including Rodion Shchedrin, Augusta Read Thomas, John Corigliano and Peter Dyson, whose works he premiered and recorded in Russia, France and the US. As a founding member of the Krasni String Quartet, he recorded 4 CDs for the British OLYMPIA label featuring complete sets of string quartets by Schebalin and Taneev.

A devoted educator, Dr. Shelepov has been a faculty member of the North Carolina Chamber Music Institute and the West Virginia State University. As a member of the award-winning Montclaire String Quartet in Residence at WVSU, he enjoyed performing innovative outreach programs for thousands of students nationwide annually.

Before joining the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in 2024 as the First Assistant Concertmaster, Anton has served as Concertmaster of the Lansing Symphony and the West Virginia Symphony as well as a member of the North Carolina Symphony. Since 2015, Shelepov has been a member of the First Violin Section of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with the Baltimore, Detroit and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras working with distinguished conductors such as Sir Andrew Davis, Manfred Honeck, Leonard Slatkin, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Peter Oundjian.