Misha began studying piano aged eight, and his outstanding early promise blossomed into graduation with distinction from the Russian Academy of Music. He studied with Lina Bulatova, herself a pupil of the revered Professor Neuhaus who had taught Sviatoslav Richter. Misha then went on to further his studies at the Franz Liszt Hochschule in Weimar and the Sweelinck Conservatoire in Amsterdam, studying respectively with Gerlinde Otto and Jan Wijn.

Misha has always been renowned for his fine communicative skills in front of an audience, allied to effortless technique and inspiring musicianship in everything he performs.

Jan Wijn has said of him: 'Michael Fomin is an excellent young pianist with a very good technique and a fine musical ear. His virtuosity enables him to play the most difficult works of the piano repertoire and his musicality expresses itself by perfect phrasing and timing, good taste, and sense for style and structure. Fomin is a young, talented musician.'

On being awarded a major prize at the Pozzoli competition in Seregno, Italy one of the judges Marcello Abbado said of Misha: 'his performance of Liszt’s Paraphrase de concert de Rigoletto was fantastic...what an interesting and intelligent musician...'

Misha Fomin is now extensively in demand throughout Europe and is frequently heard in TV and radio broadcasts. He is planning his own Pas de Deux Festival of Piano and Chamber Music for summer 2008, joining two elegant locations, the Chateau de Beauvais in the Loire Valley, the other at a location in Netherlands.