Ekaterina Frolova

Pianist Vesselin Stanev, born in Varna (Bulgaria), trained at the Academy of Music in Sofia and then with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, with Alexis Weissenberg and at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris. He also received further guidance from Peter Feuchtwanger in London. He was a prizewinner of the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and of the Concours Marguerite Long – Jacques Thibaud.

He regularly performs in major European concert halls, such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and the Salle Gaveau in Paris. He also travels to the Nordic countries, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Russia and Japan. He is particularly devoted to chamber music, for example with violinist Ekaterina Frolova, flautist Eva Oertle or cellist Zoltán Despond. He has recorded numerous CDs for RCA, Sony Classical and the Bulgarian label Gega New.