Sofya Gulyak (born in Kazan, 1979) is a Russian pianist. In 2006 she won the 1st Prize in the Sigismund Thalberg International Piano Competition. In 2007 she won the William Kapell Competition [1][2] and shared the Concorso F. Busoni 2nd prize with Dinara Nadzhafova.[3] Gulyak was the winner of the 2008 Washington International Competition of the Friday Morning Music Club,[4] and also won Isang Yun Competition 2008 by becoming the 1st Prize Winner.[5] In 2009, she won the 1st prize in the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. She is the first female winner of the competition.