Ivan Donchev

Ivan Donchev (born August 11, 1981, Burgas) is a Bulgarian pianist.

He began his musical studies at the age of five at “Pancho Vladigerov” National Music School in the class of Julia Nenova. From 2007 to 2013 he studied with Aldo Ciccolini. He made his debut as a soloist at nine with works by Bach, Beethoven, Czerny, Haydn and Berkovich. In 1994 – at the age of twelve – he made his concerto debut with Burgas Philharmonic Orchestra performing Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D. The same year he won the 1st prize at "Svetoslav Obretenov" Piano Competition in Bulgaria. At 16 he won the 1st prize at the 2nd Piano Competition for German and Austrian Music in Burgas. Some months later - after taking part at the IInd "Carl Filtsch" International Piano Competiiton in Sibiu - he was awarded the special prize by the Chopin Society in Darmstadt. The same year he made his debut at the “Gasteig” concert hall in Munich and in other cities in Germany. In 2008 he won the XVIIIth Music Competition “Società Umanitaria” in Milan, ex-aequo with Federico Colli (among the other prize winners was Beatrice Rana).

In 2009 he made his debut at the Sala Verdi in Milan's Conservatory. He has performed at the Seiler Piano Festival in Kitzingen, Germany (2002), at the Festival de Radio France in Montpellier (2009), two concerts with Beethoven programs (including Sonata, op. 106 "Hammerklavier" and variations on a Theme of Diabelli, op. 120) at the 58th Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto (2015) and the US debut at Merkin Hall in New York City with the Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" op. 73 by Ludwig van Beethoven (2015). In 2010 he held recitals and master classes in Japan. In 2012 he made his debut in South Korea with the Concerto in A minor, op. 16 by Grieg. Between 2012 and 2014 he carried out three tours in South Korea where he played in the major cities of the country, both in recitals and with orchestra.

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