Competition successes for HfMT pianists
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HồED3↩ Khánh Vân, a student from Prof. Hubert Rutkowski's piano class, was awarded 1st prize at the XXIV Zarębski International Music Competition in Warsaw. Teodor Pazov from Mariya Yankova's class also celebrated great success: at the WPTA International Piano Competition in Piacenza (Italy), he not only won first prize, but also received special prizes for the best interpretation of a work by Prokofiev.
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The young Vietnamese pianist Hồ Khánh Vân is one of the most promising talents of her generation and of the Vietnamese classical music scene. Her awards include 1st Prize at the London International Music Competition (2024), 1st Prize and the Nuovo Imaie Prize at the Mauro Paolo Monopoli International Piano Competition in Italy (2023) and the Classical Sonata Prize at the Verona Piano Competition in Italy (2023). Previously, she was awarded 1st prize at the Hungarian National Piano Competition (2018), 2nd prize at the Ile-de-France International Piano Competition in Paris (2018) and 3rd prize at the Danubia-Talents International Music Competition in Vienna (2018). These successes have earned her concert appearances at major venues worldwide, including in Germany, France, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Portugal and Vietnam. In recent years, Vân has performed at renowned international music festivals such as the Ravel Festival, the Goslarer Konzertarbeitswochen, the International Mendelssohn Festival, the International Summer Academy Mozarteum and the Mélomanes Côte Sud Association. From 2021 to 2025, she studied with Prof. Stepan Simonian as part of her bachelor's degree. Since October, she has been continuing her master's studies in the class of Prof. Hubert Rutkowski.
Teodor Pazov is a Bulgarian pianist who began his training in Sofia with Antonina Boneva and is currently studying for his Master's degree with Mariya Yankova at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, having already completed his Bachelor's degree there. He has won many prizes at various international competitions, including first prize at the WPTA, Italy (2025), first prize at the Premio Pianistico Internazionale Napolinova International Competition in Napoli, Italy (2024), first prize at the Euterpe Music Awards (2024) and a special prize and invitation to the gala concert in the Kammersaal of the Berlin Philharmonie.
Teodor has performed at renowned festivals in several European cities such as Warsaw, Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Naples and Budapest and has worked with renowned professors such as Michail Lifits, Grigory Gruzman, Bernd Goetzke and Ludmil Angelov. He has also been a soloist with various orchestras and participated in important musical projects, such as the recordings of both CDs "Growing up with Rachmaninoff" and "Growing up with Pancho Vladigerov", supported by the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture, as well as the world premiere of "11,000 strings for 50 microtonally tuned pianos and chamber orchestra" by Georg Friedrich Haas, organized by the Busoni-Mahler Foundation in Bolzano.