Young Artists in Concert

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Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI:50
– Allegro
– Adagio
– Allegro molto

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Étude in A minor, Op. 25 No. 11
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Sonata in E-flat Major, D 562
– Allegro moderato
– Andante molto
– Minuet
– Allegretto
– Allegro moderato

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Étude-tableaux in G minor, Op. 33, No. 8

Performers
Yin Mi (bachelor’s student), class of Mariya Yankova
Teodor Pazov (master’s student), class of Mariya Yankova

About Yin Mi
Yin Mi began playing the piano at the age of five. She received her musical education at renowned music institutions in China: at the Central Conservatory of Music Middle School Gulangyu Piano School during elementary school and at the Affiliated Middle School of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 2025, she was admitted as a student to the Hamburg University of Music and Drama.

Major competition achievements and activities:
2025: 1st Prize in the “Professional Youth Group” category at the 18th Shanghai International Youth Piano Competition
2025: First solo piano recital
2024: 2nd Prize in the “Professional Open Category” at the Shanghai Piano Open Competition
2023: 1st Prize in the “Chamber Music” category at the 8th National Music Competition for Youth in China (“Hummel Music Festival”)
2017: Second Prize in the “Children” category at the 4th International Chinese Piano Art Festival (Taiwan)
2016: First Prize in the “Children Group B” category at the 5th International Youth Pianists Competition (China)

About Teodor Pazov
Teodor Pazov was born on August 26, 1999, in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2018, he successfully completed his secondary education at the “Lyubomir Pipkov” National Music School in Sofia in the class of Bulgarian pianist and educator Antonina Boneva and was admitted to the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg with top marks. In 2022, he completed his bachelor’s degree in the class of Mariya Yankova and was admitted to a master’s program to continue his studies.

Teodor has actively participated in master classes with renowned professors such as Michail Lifits, Grigory Gruzman, Bernd Goetzke, and Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń. In 2024, he received a full scholarship to attend the Allegra Academy under Prof. Jacques Amon. Since early 2014, Teodor has been an active student and participant in Prof. Ludmil Angelov’s master classes at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria.

He has received scholarships from the “Consonance Foundation,” “Communittas,” the “American Foundation for Bulgaria,” the Otto Stöterau Foundation, the Gisela Bartels Foundation, the Deutschlandstipendium, and Yehudi Menuhin LMN Hamburg.

He has received a number of awards from national and international competitions and festivals, including First Prize at the WPTA in Italy (2025), First Prize at the Premio Pianistico Internazionale Napolinova International Competition in Naples, Italy (2024), First Prize at the Euterpe Music Awards (2024), along with a special prize and an invitation to perform at the gala concert in the Chamber Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic; First Prize at the 3rd Premier Music Pro International Competition in Budapest, Hungary (2024); Third Prize at the 4th AMIGDALA International Prize for Piano Interpretation in Italy (2023), Second Prize at the 9th “Città di Treviso” International Competition in Treviso, Italy (2022), and many others.

Teodor Pazov has also performed at various festivals and concerts throughout Europe, including the “Sofia Music Weeks” Festival, the “Apolonia” Festival, the “Boris Hristov” Arts Festival, the “Piano Extravaganza” Festival, at the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Warsaw and Berlin, in Hamburg, in Vienna, in Naples, in Budapest, and others.

In 2023, he was a soloist with the Symphonietta Vidin Orchestra in Vidin, Montana, and Vratsa; in 2019, a soloist with the Symphonietta Sofia Orchestra; and in 2016 and 2017, a soloist with the Symphonietta Vratsa Orchestra.

In 2022, he participated in the release of a double-disc complete works album and the concerts held to present it as part of the “Growing up with Rachmaninoff” project. The album features all of the composer’s Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33 and Op. 39, performed by students of Antonina Boneva, and was produced with financial support from the Bulgarian National Cultural Fund. In 2025, the second part of the project, titled “Growing up with Pancho Vladigerov,” was released. It features some of the greatest Bulgarian composer’s best-known works. The album received high praise from PIZZICATO, one of the most renowned online magazines for classical music.

In September 2023, Teodor participated as a pianist in 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.

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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