Emanuil Ivanov
Biography
Emanuil Ivanov attracted international attention after receiving the First prize at the 2019 Ferruccio Busoni Piano Competition in Italy. This achievement was followed by concert engagements in some of the world’s most prestigious halls including Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Herculessaal in Munich and the Great Hall of the Saint Petersburg philharmonic.
Emanuil Ivanov was born in 1998 in the town of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. From an early age he demonstrated a keen interest and love for music. He regards the presence of symphonic music, especially that of Gustav Mahler, as tremendously influential in his musical upbringing during his childhood. He started piano lessons with Galina Daskalova in his hometown around the age of seven. He later studied in and graduated from the Bertolt Brecht language high school in Pazardzhik. Ivanov studied with renowned bulgarian pianist Atanas Kurtev from 2013 to 2018. He is currently studying on a full scholarship at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire under the tutelage of Pascal Nemirovski and Anthony Hewitt.
Ivanov has won prizes in competitions such as “Alessandro Casagrande”, “Scriabin-Rachmaninoff”, “Pavel Serebryakov”, “Liszt-Bartok”, “Young virtuosos” and “Jeunesses International Music Competition Dinu Lipatti”. He was also awarded the honorary Crystal lyre and the Young Musician of the Year Award – some of the most prestigious awards in Bulgaria.
His participations in masterclasses include those of Dmitri Bashkirov, Dmitri Alexeev, Stephen Hough, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Peter Donohoe, etc.
In February 2021, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ivanov performed a solo recital in Milan’s famous Teatro alla Scala. The concert was live-streamed online and is a major highlight in the artist’s career.
Emanuil Ivanov has also performed at many festivals in Bulgaria and has also given solo recitals in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Cyprus, the United Kingdom and Poland. He has played with leading orchestras in Bulgaria and Italy.
During the 2021/2022 concert season Ivanov is scheduled to perform in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, including Herkulessaal in Munich and the Great Hall of the Saint Petersburg philharmonic.
Concerto Repertoire
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Keyboard concerto no.3 in D major, BWV 105
Ludwig van Beethoven
- Piano concerto no.1 in C major, op.15
- Piano concerto no.2 in B-flat major, op.19
- Piano concerto no.3 in C minor, op.37
- Piano concerto no.5 in E-flat major, op.73
- Triple concerto in C major, op.56
Johannes Brahms
- Piano concerto no.2 in B-flat major, op.83
Frederic Chopin
- Piano concerto no.1 in E minor, op.11
George Gershwin
- Piano concerto in F
Edvard Grieg
- Piano concerto in A minor, op.16
Joseph Haydn
- Piano concerto no.11 in D major, Hob. XVIII/11
Franz Liszt
- Piano concerto no.1 in E-flat major, S. 124
Felix Mendelssohn
- Piano concerto no.1 in G minor, op.25
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Piano concerto no.9 in E-flat major, K. 271
- Piano concerto no.12 in A major, K. 414
- Piano concerto no.17 in G major, K. 453
- Piano concerto no.20 in D minor, K. 466
- Piano concerto no.23 in A major, K. 488
Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Piano concerto no.1 in F-sharp minor, op.1
- Piano concerto no.2 in C minor, op.18
- Piano concerto no.3 in D minor, op.30
Maurice Ravel
- Piano concerto in G major
- Piano concerto for the left hand
Camille Saint-Saëns
- Piano concerto no.2 in G minor, op.22
- Piano concerto no.5 in F major, op.103
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Piano concerto no.1 in B-flat minor, op.23
Pancho Vladigerov
- Piano Concerto no.4 in G major, op.48
Concerts
October 2022
07.10.2022
Boris Christov House of Culture, Plovdiv, Bulgaria Brahms – Piano Concerto no.2 with State Opera Plovdiv symphony orchestra
13.10.2022
Shumen concert hall, Shumen, Bulgaria Brahms – Piano Concerto no.2 with Shumen Symphony Orchestra
September 2022
03.09.2022
Apollonia amphitheatre, Sozopol, Bulgaria Song recital with Ina Kancheva – Debussy, Medtner, Chopin, Martucci
07.09.2022
Bulgaria Hall, Sofia, Bulgaria Solo recital – programme TBA
11.09.2022
West Meon Music Festival, West Meon, UK Solo recital – Beethoven, Busoni, Scriabin, Chopin/Liszt, Liszt
August 2022
30.08.2022
Konzerthaus Bozen, Bolzano, Italy Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 1 with Mahler Academy Orchestra and Pablo Heras-Casado
July 2022
21.07.2022
Solinaria Open Stage, Sozopol, Bulgaria Solo recital - Beethoven, Scriabin, Busoni, Trenet/Weissenberg, Liszt
June 2022
07.06.2022
Coronation Hall, Ulverston, UK Frederic Rzewski – The people united will never be defeated!
08.06.2022
Coronation Hall, Ulverston, UK Two-piano recital with Anthony Hewitt – Mozart, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Poulenc
13.06.2022
Polish Cultural Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria Solo recital - Frédéric Chopin, Frederic Rzewski
May 2022
24.05.2022
Great Hall of Saint Petersburg philharmonic, with Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestra– Saint-Saëns 5
- CANCELLED
30.05.2022
Konzerthaus Bozen, Bolzano with Orchestra Haydn – Mendelssohn 1
31.05.2022
Teatro Auditorium, Trento with Orchestra Haydn – Mendelssohn 1
March 2022
10.03.2022
Bulgaria hall, Sofia, with Sofia philharmonic – Saint-Saëns 5
25.03.2022
Bolzano, Società dei Concerti
13.03.2022
Imola, itlay
03.10.2022
28.03.2022
Herkulessaal, Munich
December 2021
02.12.2021
Pistoia with Orchestra Leonore
01.12.2021
Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna with Orchestra Leonore
09.10.2021
Kiel, Germany – Ansgarkirche, Kiel
November 2021
17.11.2021
Steinway Hall, London
20.11.2021
Teatro Savoia, Campobasso
21.11.2021
Avezzano
22.11.2021
Teatro Massimo, Pescara
23.11.2021
Teatro Showville, Bari
October 2021
01.10.2021
Catanzaro – Palazzo de Nobili, Catanzaro, Italy
02.10.2021
Palmi – Auditorium della Casa della Cultura, Palmi, Italy
14.10.2021
Zürich – ETH, Semper Aula
19.10.2021
Vienna, Fanny Hensel Hall, MDW Vienna
28.10.2021
Plovdiv, Bulgaria , Boris Christov House of Culture, – Mendelssohn 1 with State Opera Plovdiv symphony orchestra
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