Dimitri Teterin was born in Moscow in 1971. He studied piano from the age of six at the Central Music School of Moscow under A. Mndojanz and graduated from the Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky State Conservatory where he studied under E. Malinin and I. Osipova. His education also includes scholarship studies with Sergei Babayan at Cleveland Institute of Music and with Tamas Ungar at TCU in Fort Worth, U.S.A. He completed his doctorate at Moscow Conservatory under Professor Alexei Nasedkin. At the age of nine, he gave his first public concert at Columns Hall in Moscow. He is best described by Professor Evgeny Malinin as a "virtuoso, romantic".

A winner of numerous prizes, Dmitri Teterin, in 1992, won the "Special Promise Award" at the Honens International Piano Competition, Calgary, Canada ("a young Artist who demonstrates unique talent, sensitivity and virtuosity with the promise of future brilliance"). In 1994, he won Second Prize at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Salt Lake City, U.S.A. In 1995, he won Third Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition, Cleveland, U.S.A. In 1996, he won Second Prize at the Unisa Transnet International Piano Competition, Pretoria, South Africa. He also won First Prize at the 1996 Rencontres Internationales de Jeunes Pianistes, Strasbourg, France. In 1998, he won First Prize at the Palm Beach Invitational, and First Prize at the 1998 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, U.S.A.

Mr. Teterin has concertized extensively in Russia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, South Africa, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Canada, U.K., France, Spain, Germany, Italy and the U.S.A. His orchestral appearances include Utah Symphony, Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Cincinnati Orchestra, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Athens Symphony, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, and Transvaal Philharmonic, collaborating with such conductors as Enrique Batiz, Mark Gorenstein, Gerard Korsten, Louis Lane, and Victor Yampolsky. He has been recorded for radio and/or television in Russia, France, U.K., Poland, South Africa and the U.S.A. He has recorded the 24 Etudes of Chopin.

He has performed in many of the most prestigious concert halls including the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Tchaikovsky Moscow Philharmonic Hall, National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw, Megaro Hall in Athens, Cemal Resit Rey in Ankara, Old Mutual Hall and State Theatre in Pretoria, Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City, Jack Singer Hall in Calgary, Sala Verdi in Milano, Teatro Opera and Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires, Alice Tully Hall, and Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall.

He has been invited as a juror of international piano competitions and was Chairman of the jury of the Kaliningrad Third Youth International Piano Competition. Currently, in addition to performing, he also teaches at Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky State Conservatory.