Evgeny Konnov

Evgeny Konnov (born 19 November 1992 in Chirchiq, Uzbekistan) is a Russian pianist. He is the winner of many competitions, the most important of them: 2018 first prize and public prize at the 64th Maria Canals International Music Competition[1] in Barcelona, 2019 first prize and public prize at the 31st International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition[2] in Seregno, 2020 first prize at the 14th Unisa International Piano Competition[3] in South Africa. In the season 2020/2021 he was an artist in residence at the Staatstheater Augsburg. His debut album was released by Naxos in 2022 with piano sonatas by the Catalan composer Antonio Soler and was highly acclaimed by the international press.[4]

Evgeny Konnov
Background information
Born (1992-11-19) November 19, 1992
Chirchiq, Uzbekistan
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)Musician
Instrument(s)Piano

Music education

Evgeny Konnov began to study piano at the age of four with Natalia Krivosheina, and in 1999 he entered in the Gnesin Music School in Moscow, Russia under Tatiana Sarkisians supervision. From 2008 to 2012 he studied at the Academic Music College in Moscow, Russia with Natalia Syslova. From 2012 to 2013 he studied at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany under Professor Georg Friedrich Schenck supervision. From 2013 to 2021 he studied with Evgenia Rubinova at the Leopold Mozart Centre in Augsburg, Germany[5] and from 2017 to 2021 with Professor Albert Mamriev at the Music Academy "Neue Sterne" in Hannover, Germany.

In 2019 he began studying with Professor Jan Gottlieb Jiracek von Arnim at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Career

Konnov has given concerts in numerous concert halls in Germany (Gasteig[6]), Spain (National Auditorium of Music,[7] Palau de la Música Catalana,[8] Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall,[9] Auditorio Manuel de Falla,[10] Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, L'Auditori[11]), Portugal (Casa da Música), (France Salle Cortot in Paris[12]), Russia (Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory), Italy (Teatro Dal Verme,[13] Casa di Riposo per Musicisti), Austria (Konzerthaus, Vienna[14]), Brussels (Flagey Building), Japan (Act City Hamamatsu), Netherlands, Poland, Malta, Uzbekistan, South Africa and Morocco.

He has performed as soloist with Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, City of Granada Orchestra, Jove Orquestra Nacional de Catalunya, Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Augsburger Philharmoniker, Orquestra Internacional Virtuosos de Madrid, Orchestra Filarmonica Mihail Jora di Bacau, Orchestra Sinfonica Citta di Grosseto, Orchestra Antonio Vivaldi, Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, Ryazan Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra Wernigerode, Vienna City Orchestra, Orquestra Filarmonica Portuguesa.

Many of his recordings and interviews were broadcast by radio and television broadcasters: BBC Radio,[15] Radio Orpheus, RTBF, augsburg.tv, TGR, Russia-K and others.

He also takes part as a jury member at such competitions as Compositores de España International Piano Competition[16] in Las Rozas de Madrid , Clavis Bavaria and A. Scriabin International Piano Competition in Grosseto.

Awards
YearCompetitionPrize
2014 Germany Augsburg Siegfried Gschwilm Piano Competition[17]1st prize
2016 Italy Milan 6th International Piano Competition Piano Talents1st prize
2016 Morocco Rabat 12th International Piano Competition Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Meryem (Excellence Category)[18]1st prize
2016 Morocco Rabat 12th International Piano Competition Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Meryem (Superior Category)[19]1st prize
2017 Germany Berlin Mozart International Competition[20]1st prize
2017 Germany Bad Tölz 1st International Piano Competition Clavis Bavaria1st prize
2017 Malta Valletta Malta International Piano Festival and Competition[21]1st prize
2017 Spain Las Rozas de Madrid 18th Compositores de España International Piano Competition[22]1st prize
2017 Online 2nd Future Stars International Piano Competition1st prize
2018 Spain Barcelona 64th Maria Canals International Music Competition[23][24]1st prize
2018 Italy Cantu 28th International Piano Competition Città di Cantù[25]1st prize
2018 Germany: Hannover 1st Hannover-Beethoven International Music Festival and Competition[26]Grand Prix
2019 Italy: Grosseto 21st International Piano Competition Alexander Scriabin[27]1st prize
2019 Germany: Königs Wusterhausen 4th Young Piano Stars International Piano Competition[28]1st prize
2019 Italy: Seregno 31st International Ettore Pozzoli Piano Competition[29]1st prize
2019 Germany Augsburg 60th Augsburg City Art Award[30]Awarded
2020 South Africa: Pretoria 14th Unisa International Piano Competition[31]1st prize
2020 Austria: Vienna 2nd Vienna International Music Competition[32]1st prize
2020 Austria: Vienna Vienna New Year's Concert International Music Competition[33]1st prize
2020 Poland: Warsaw 1st International Piano Competition Music Phenomena[34]1st prize
2021 Online 6th Odin International Music Competition[35]1st prize
2021 United States: New York City American Protégé International Piano and Strings Competition1st prize
2021 United States: Philadelphia 1st Russian Music Award Competition, Triumph Music Festival[36]1st prize
2021 Russia: Moscow 1st International Music Competition Silk Way1st prize
2021 United Kingdom: London International Music Competition Grand Prize Virtuoso1st prize
2021 Greece: Athens 5th International Music Competition Muse[37]1st prize
2021 Spain Valencia Valencia Awards Music Competition1st prize
2022 Germany Wernigerode 7th International Music Competition Neue Sterne[38]1st prize

References
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