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Ivaylo Vassilev, piano
Born in 2007 in Sofia, Ivaylo Vasilev studied piano at the National School of Music "Lyubomir Pipkov" from 2014 to 2019, in the class of Emilia Kaneva, and from 2019 to now - with Prof. Dr. Borislava Taneva. At the age of 15, he already has an enviable collection of over 30 awards from international competitions in Bulgaria, Russia, Singapore, Finland, Kazakhstan, Greece, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Belgium, Great Britain, most of which are first and grand prix He was among the units selected to participate in the finals of some of the most significant and difficult children's competitions in the world, such as Wunderkinder (Italy), Astana Piano Passion (Kazakhstan), Vladimir Krainev (Moscow).
Among the most significant awards are the Golden Nutcracker (2018) and first prizes from the Anna Artobolevskaya competition in Moscow (2017); Liszt–Bartók (2020); Grand Prix of the Schumann-Brahms (2020) and "From Bach to Jazz" competitions (Athens, 2018); First prize at the Music Singapore Young Pianists and Violinists Competition (2021); First prize in the National radio competition for young instrumentalists for the Cantus Firmus awards (2021), First prize in the Euregio Piano Award competition, (Germany, 2022); First prize at the Lancaster International Piano Festival and Competition (Lancaster, USA, 2022).
Thanks to his many awards, Ivaylo Vassilev has the privilege of playing in emblematic halls such as the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory "P. I. Tchaikovsky" and the House of Music in Moscow, the Symphony Chapel of St. Petersburg, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Hall, the Ghent Opera House, the Gustav Mahler Hall in Toblach (Italy), the Jumeirah Zabee Music Hall in Dubai. A CD has been released with concertos for piano and orchestra by Mozart and Shostakovich.
He has given concerts with a number of prominent Bulgarian and Russian conductors such as Pavel Balev, Grigor Palikarov, Konstantin Ilievski, Alexander Chernushenko, Alexander Titov, Igor Lerman, as well as with the permanent guest conductor of the Sofia Philharmonic, Sasha Götzel (Austria); he played with three of the major Bulgarian orchestras - the Sofia Philharmonic, the Bulgarian national radio Symphony Orchestra and the Varna Philharmonic, as well as with other Bulgarian and Russian symphony orchestras and conductors.
He gave solo recitals within the framework of the Mozart Festival in Pravets, at the Bulgarian Cultural Center in Moscow, at the Meeting of Generations series in Sofia, at the Polish Institute in Sofia, at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Warsaw, at the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Sofia, etc.
He participated in numerous master classes with pianists from all over the world. In addition to his serious performing activities, he composes, improvises, accompanies, plays chamber music on a daily basis.
Three times he won the Dimitar Berbatov Foundation Grand Prize in the Art category, he was twice awarded by the Ministry of Culture for high creative achievements. In 2021, at the proposal of the Sofia Philharmonic, Ivaylo was awarded the "Crystal Lyre" award in the "Young Musician" category.
Reviews of his performances by musicians and critics are flattering. Dmitry Bashkirov says about him that he "masters the sound, the charm of music, he feels it so authentically and naturally as if he created everything himself from beginning to end." Eustas Dvarionas says that he "plays with deep feeling and shows all the colors of the rainbow". Vladimir Ovchinnikov sees in him a future great musician, and Balazs Füley hears sensuality, poetry, individuality, fantasy, concentration and awareness in his performances. Dimitar Georgiev, one of the founders of "Sofia Soloists", sees in Vassilev an extraordinary ease of playing, which even great accomplished pianists would envy. And Svetlana Slivinskaya, a music critic from St. Petersburg, calls Ivaylo's appearance in the music world "divine providence", similar to the appearance of Glenn Gould, and describes Bach's music in his performance as unheard of beauty and deep philosophy, causing rapture and meditative reflection, discovering new cosmic depths in the great composer's music.
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