エマニュエル・イワノフ（1998年、ブルガリア・パザルジク生まれ）は、2019年にブゾーニ国際ピアノコンクールで第1位を受賞し、国際的な注目を集めた若手ピアニスト。幼少期より音楽への強い情熱を示し、とりわけグスタフ・マーラーの交響曲に深く魅了され、自らスコアを読み解きピアノで再現するなど、我流でピアノ演奏をしていた。高校で英語、フランス語、ドイツ語、イタリア語を学び、ブルガリアでは音楽学校に進まず独自の道を歩む。2019年からは全額奨学生として英国ロイヤル・バーミンガム音楽院に学び、現在はロンドン王立音楽院大学院に在籍。
2021年のスカラ座でのソロリサイタルがストリーミング配信されたのを皮切りに、ヘルクレスザール、ウィグモアホール、カーネギーホール、サンクトペテルブルク・フィルハーモニー大ホールなど、世界有数の名門ホールでの演奏歴を持ち、各地で高い評価を得ている。2022年には日本デビューを果たし、ジェフスキー《不屈の民変奏曲》の演奏が絶賛され、以降も現代作品の演奏に積極的に取り組む。2025年にはブーレーズ生誕100周年記念コンサートや、ショスタコーヴィチ《24の前奏曲とフーガ》全曲演奏など、注目の公演が続く。
録音では、2024年にはスカルラッティ・ソナタ集をナクソスよりリリース。2025年にはリン・レコードより《不屈の民変奏曲》を録音・発売予定。スカルラッティやベートーヴェンの解釈にも定評があり、ヨーロッパの古典的伝統を重んじながら、現代作品にも果敢に挑むその姿勢が高く評価されている。
Emanuil Ivanov / piano
Emanuil Ivanov attracted international attention after receiving the First prize at the 2019 Ferruccio Busoni Piano Competition in Italy. This achievement was followed by concert engagements in some of the world’s most prestigious halls including Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Herculessaal in Munich and the Great Hall of the Saint Petersburg philharmonic.
Emanuil Ivanov was born in 1998 in the town of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. From an early age he demonstrated a keen interest and love for music. He regards the presence of symphonic music, especially that of Gustav Mahler, as tremendously influential in his musical upbringing during his childhood. He started piano lessons with Galina Daskalova in his hometown around the age of seven. He later studied in and graduated from the Bertolt Brecht language high school in Pazardzhik. Ivanov studied with renowned bulgarian pianist Atanas Kurtev from 2013 to 2018. He is currently studying on a full scholarship at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire under the tutelage of Pascal Nemirovski and Anthony Hewitt.
Ivanov has won prizes in competitions such as “Alessandro Casagrande”, “Scriabin-Rachmaninoff”, “Pavel Serebryakov”, “Liszt-Bartok”, “Young virtuosos” and “Jeunesses International Music Competition Dinu Lipatti”. He was also awarded the honorary Crystal lyre and the Young Musician of the Year Award – some of the most prestigious awards in Bulgaria.
His participations in masterclasses include those of Dmitri Bashkirov, Dmitri Alexeev, Stephen Hough, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Peter Donohoe, etc.
In February 2021, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ivanov performed a solo recital in Milan’s famous Teatro alla Scala. The concert was live-streamed online and is a major highlight in the artist’s career.
Emanuil Ivanov has also performed at many festivals in Bulgaria and has also given solo recitals in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Cyprus, the United Kingdom and Poland. He has played with leading orchestras in Bulgaria and Italy.
During the 2021/2022 concert season Ivanov is scheduled to perform in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, including Herkulessaal in Munich and the Great Hall of the Saint Petersburg philharmonic.