Anton Prischepa was born in 1983 in Moscow. He started to study the clarinet at the age of eight at the Gnesin Music School. At the same time he started to study composition with the composer Vladimir Dovgan, himself a pupil of Boris Tchaikovsky. In 2001 he entered the Gnesin Academy in the clarinet class of Nikolay Volkov and in the composition class of Professor Kyrill Volkov. He is the laureate of several young performers' competitions, such as Classical Legacy (Moscow, 1993), Classical Chamber Ensemble (Moscow, 1996), Siberian Musical Assemblies (Novosibirsk, 2002). He has appeared as a soloist and in chamber music in Russia, Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Japan. As a composer, Prischepa is the author of chamber and vocal works that have been performed in Russia and in European countries. He was the winner of the second and third young composers' competitions "Crystal Tuning Fork", and he took first prize at the First International Scriabin Composer's Competition.