9 November 2024 @ 11:00 am
Free Admission- 11am start – Please book your place to give us an idea of numbers
Emanuil Ivanov touches down at this season’s Piano Series with a free masterclass, playing excerpts from and discussing his programme for the evening recital, which will include works by Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt. This is an ideal opportunity for aspiring pianists to meet and observe a young professional at the top of his craft. Tell all your keyboard playing friends!
Emanuil Ivanov was born in 1998 in the town of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria, starting piano lessons with Galina Daskalova around the age of seven. He later studied with the renowned Bulgarian pianist Atanas Kurtev from 2013 to 2018 and attracted international attention after receiving the First prize at the 2019 Ferruccio Busoni Piano Competition in Italy.
In February 2021, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Emanuil performed a solo recital in Milan’s famous Teatro alla Scala. The concert was live streamed and is a major highlight in his career. In 2022, Emanuili received the honorary Silver medal of the Musicians’ Company, London and later in the same year became a recipient of the prestigious Carnwath Piano Scholarship.
In 2024 he graduated from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, having studied there on a full scholarship under the tutelage of Pascal Nemirovski and Anthony Hewitt. He is currently an Advanced Diploma student at London’s Royal Academy of Music as a recipient of the prestigious Bicentenary scholarship, under the supervision of Joanna MacGregor and Christopher Elton.
Emanuil Ivanov has given critically acclaimed performances in Japan, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Poland. In the summer of 2023, he recorded an album of Scarlatti sonatas for the renowned Naxos label and his performances have been featured on BBC Radio 3, Italy’s Rai Radio 3 and Japan’s NHK Radio. This year Emanuil will also make his debuts on the stages of Wigmore Hall and Konzerthaus Dortmund.
His recital programme will be:
Schumann
– Theme and Variations in E-flat major “Ghost variations”
– Symphonic Etudes op.13 (with posthumous variations)
Rachmaninoff
– 9 Etudes-Tableaux op.39
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