Ivaylo Vasilev

IVAYLO VASILEV (2007) was born in Sofia. He started playing piano at the age of 7 with Emilia Kaneva at the Lyubomir Pipkov National Music School, and since 2019 has continued his studies under the tutelage of  Prof.  Borislava Taneva PhD. At the age of 14 he has already an enviable collection of over 20 awards from international competition such as Golden Nutcracker (2018), 1^st  prize at the International Piano Competition Anna Artobolevskaya, 1^st  Prize at the Liszt-Bartók Competition and Grand Prix at the Schumann-Brahms Competition – in 2020, 1^st  Prize at the Music Singapore International Piano & Violin Competition (2021), 1^st  Prize in the Instrumentalists Under 15 category in the National Radio competitions for young musicians for Cantus Firmus Awards as well as the Cantus Firmus Grand Prix for 2020;  I^st Prize at the International piano competition EUREGIO PIANO AWARD and two first prizes in different categories of the The Solinaria Youth Festival in the age group up to 18 years – in 2022, etc. Winner of the Crystal Lyre Award 2021 in the Young Artist category.

Thanks to his awards, Ivaylo has been given the incredible opportunity to perform in iconic venues such as the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, P. I. Tchaikovsky and the House of Music in Moscow, the St. Petersburg Symphony Chapel, the Luxembourg Philharmonic Hall, the Ghent Opera House, the Gustav Mahler Hall – Kulturzentrum Toblach (Italy), the Jumeirah Zabeel Music Hall in Dubai.

He has been a soloist of the two national symphony orchestras – the Sofia Philharmonic and the Symphony Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio, the Varna Philharmonic, as well as a number of other Bulgarian and Russian symphony orchestras. He has performed solo recitals in Sofia, Moscow, Luxembourg and Warsaw. In addition to his serious performing activities, Ivaylo Vasilev composes, improvises, accompanies and plays chamber music.