Evgeni Bozhanov
Piano • Prize-winner at the International Sviatoslav Rikhter Competition in Moscow
• Prize-winner at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels
• Prize-winner at the Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth
• Prize-winner at the International Van Cliburn Frédéric Chopin Competition in Warsaw (4th prize, 2010)
Evgeni Bozhanov was born in 1984 in Ruse, Bulgaria, and began piano lessons at the age of six. He made his public debut in his hometown when he was twelve, playing a Mozart concerto.
Between 1996 and 2010, when Evgeni Bozhanov was already touring successfully, he continued his studies in Germany and won prizes at several international piano competitions. At the Frédéric Chopin Competition in October 2010 in Warsaw Evgeni Bozhanov proved tremendously popular with the public. Following the competition, the pianist received several invitations to collaborate from the leading Polish concert promoters and orchestras. Beginning in the 2011–12 season, Yevgeni Bozhanov will make his debuts at Berlin’s Philharmonie, Vienna’s Musikverein, London’s Royal Festival Hall and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. He will also make his debuts in Stockholm, Munich, Freiburg, Düsseldorf and numerous other cities.
Bozhanov’s playing elicits extremely enthusiastic reactions from audiences and critics alike. “I never thought I would witness piano playing of this quality again,” exclaimed one elderly lady in Warsaw. “I have heard Lipatti, Horowitz, Michelangeli in concert – Bozhanov is from the same planet.” One American music critic wrote that “Evgeni Bozhanov can produce more nuances of tone in a measure of music than most pianists find in a lifetime, but everything seems so organic,” while an Australian commentator declared that “Bozhanov belongs to a different generation of pianists – the Ignaz Friedman generation.”
Evgeni Bozhanov continues to work with his teacher Georg Friedrich Schenck in Düsseldorf.
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