Tomislav Baynov

Tomislav Baynov (b. 1958) was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. When he was 4 years old, his mother, the pianist Liliana Baynova, gave him his first piano lessons. When he was 6 he won the first prize in the national music competition in Provadia, Bulgaria. After he had passed his final exams at the high school, he began to study piano with Professor Konstantin Ganev in the Academy of Music in Sofia. At the same time, he studied composing. In 1981, he moved to Germany, where he completed his studies at the Academy of Music in Trossingen and in 1991 under the capable hands of Prof. Johan de Beek, he passed his examinations and was awarded his “Konzertreifeprüfung” (Concert Diploma). Baynov is the winner of several international piano awards. In addition to his teaching engagement at the Academy of Music in Trossingen and holding Master courses in Germany. Italy, Bulgaria and Greece, Baynov plays and presents solos, chamber music and orchestra concerts in all five continents. In 1989, he founded the Baynov-Piano-Ensemble, which has dedicated itself to rarely heard works for several pianos. As a composer. Baynov, found here a vast field of activity. In addition to his own compositions, “H-Ais-F-E – Meditation” for 3 piano, gongs and tomtom, there are arrangements from Baynov for 2 – 6 pianos for “Feuertanz” (Dance with the Fire) from Manuel de Falla, “Porgy and Bess,”, “Rhapsody in Blue” and Concerto in F” from George Gershwin, “Hora staccato” from Dinicu / Wladigeroff and “Concert in a-minor for 4 Harpsichords” from Johann Sebastian Bach. In an attempt to reanimate the multiple-hand technique with only one instrument, he, on the one hand, wrote arrangements for Humoresque from Rodion Stschedrin, the Trisch-Trasch-Polka from Johann Strauß and Vardar Rhapsody and on the other hand he himself composed the Metrorhythma I for piano and 6 hands. This musical work in 15/8 tact, reminds players and listeners of his homeland, Bulgaria. Many of his compositions and other works have been recorded on compact discs by the Baynov-Piano-Ensemble.