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
- Menuetto
- Allegretto
- Allegro moderato
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Étude-tableaux in G minor, op. 33 no. 8
Performers
Yin Mi (Bachelor student), class Mariya Yankova
Teodor Pazov (Master student), class 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 her primary school years and at the Affiliated Middle School of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. In 2025, she was accepted as a student at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama.
Important competition successes 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 Youth Music Competition China ("Hummel Music Festival")
2017: 2nd prize in the "Children" category at the 4th China International Piano Art Festival (Taiwan)
2016: 1st prize in the "Children Group B" category at the 5th International Youth Pianist Competition (China)
About Teodor Pazov
Teodor Pazov was born on 26.08.1999 in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2018 he successfully completed his secondary education at the National Music School "Lyubomir Pipkov" in Sofia in the class of the Bulgarian pianist and pedagogue Antonina Boneva and was accepted to the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg with maximum results. In 2022 he completed his Bachelor's degree in the class of Mariya Yankova and was admitted to continue his studies for a Master's degree.
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 with Prof. Jacques Amon. Since the beginning of 2014 Teodor has been an active student and participant of Prof. Ludmil Angelov's master classes at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria.
He was a scholarship holder of the "Consonance Foundation", "Communittas", "American Foundation for Bulgaria", Otto-Stöterau Stiftung, Gisela-Bartels Stiftung, 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, 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, First Prize at the III. International Competition Premier Music Pro International Competition in Budapest, Hungary (2024), Third Prize at the IV AMIGDALA International PRIZE for PIANO INTERPRETATION in Italy (2023), Second Prize at the IX International Competition "Città di Treviso" in Treviso, Italy (2022), and many others.
Teodor Pazov has also performed at various festivals and concerts in Europe, including the "Sofia Music Weeks" Festival, the "Apolonia" Festival, the "Boris Hristov" Art 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 soloist of the Symphonietta Vidin Orchestra in Vidin, Montana and Vratsa, in 2019 - soloist of the Symphonietta Sofia Orchestra, in 2016 and 2017 - soloist of the Symphonietta Vratsa Orchestra.
In 2022 he participates in the release of a double integral album and the concerts for its presentation as part of the project "Growing up with Rachmaninoff". The album contains all of the composer's Etudes-Pictures Op.33 and Op.39, played by students of Antonina Boneva, and was realized with the financial support of the Bulgarian National Culture Fund. In 2025, the second part of the project was realized under the title "Growing up with Pancho Vladigerov". It includes some of the most famous works of the great Bulgarian composer. The album was highly praised by 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.
Eintritt frei
Donations are welcome and will go 100% to the artists.
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