Young Artists in Concert

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata in D major, op. 28

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Fantasy in F minor, op. 49

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata in F minor, op. 57 "Appassionata"

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, op. 52

Participants
Laetitia Dodé (Bachelor student, 23 years old), class of Aleksandar Madzar
Viktoria Petkova (Bachelor student, 23 years old), class of Aleksandar Madzar

About Laetitia Dodé
Laetitia Dodé, born in 2002, is a French pianist of Polish origin. She is currently studying for a Bachelor's degree in piano at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama in the class of Aleksandar Madžar. She began playing the piano at the age of seven and completed her training at the Conservatoire régional de Toulouse in the class of Irène Blondel in 2022 with distinction and the "Prix Suzanne Lespès".

She took part in renowned summer academies in France and Germany, including MusicAlp, the Académie d'été de Nice and the International Mendelssohn Summer School Hamburg. She received important artistic impulses in master classes with Rena Shereshevskaya, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Philippe Cassard, Stepan Simonian, Hubert Rutkowski, Jérôme Granjon, Anne Le Bozec, Hortense Cartier-Bresson and Romano Pallottini.

She also studied with Johanna Wiedenbach at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama and has been working intensively on Song Interpretation in Burkhardt Kehring's class for two years.

About Viktoria Petkova
Viktoria Petkova was born in Plovdiv (Bulgaria) in 2002. She received her first piano lessons from Vaska Vladimirova at the age of five. In 2016 she continued her training with Georgios Filadelfefs, and since 2020 she has also been mentored by Jenny Zaharieva, who has had a formative influence on her artistic development. In 2023, she began her bachelor's degree at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama in the class of Professor Aleksandar Madžar.

Viktoria has won numerous international piano competitions, including the Albert Roussel International Piano Competition, the Music and Earth International Competition, the Heirs of Orpheus International Competition and the Armilla International Piano Competition. She was awarded the Assoluto Prize at the International Piano Competition "Musikalisches Feuerwerk in Baden- Württemberg". In 2020, Viktoria made her orchestral debut with Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto, accompanied by the Vratsa Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Hristo Pavlov. She also performed with the Razgrad State Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the Dimitar Nenov Piano Competition. Since then, she has performed with the Shumen State Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sinfonietta Sofia, among others. In 2023, she was awarded the Diplôme de virtuosité with the distinction très bien at the Schola Cantorum in Paris.

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Seat reservation at: hamburg@bechstein.de

Dates at a glance
16.10.2025
13.11.2025
11.12.2025
29.01.2026
26.03.2026
21.05.2026
10.09.2026
22.10.2026
03.12.2026

in cooperation with the C. Bechstein Centrum Hamburg in the Chilehaus