Ekaterina Frolova

The pianist Vesselin Stanev, a native of Varna (Bulgaria), trained at the Sofia Academy of Music and then with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Tchaïkovski 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 is a laureate of the Tchaïkovski 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 Philharmonie de Berlin, the Gewandhaus de Leipzig or the Salle Gaveau in Paris. He also tours in the Nordic countries, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Russia and Japan.

He is particularly devoted to chamber music, for example with the violinist Ekaterina Frolova, the flautist Eva Oertle or the cellist Zoltán Despond. He has recorded numerous CDs for RCA, Sony Classical and the Bulgarian label Gega New.