Petar Kostov
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Petar Kostov received his education with Konrad Elser at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, as well as in Vienna. He attended master classes with Andrzej Jasiński, Ludmil Angelov, Boris Berman, Paul Badura-Skoda, Alexander Jenner and Bozhidar Nojev.
He is a multiple prize winner of national and international piano and chamber music competitions, including the International Chamber Music Festival "Allegro Vivo".
As part of "Wien Modern 2018", Petar Kostov played at the Vienna Konzerthaus for the entire performance of Luciano Berio's Sequenze cycle. In 2016, at the Vienna Radio Culture House, he performed Geirr Tveitt's piano concerto "Aurora Borealis" and Igor Stravinsky's piano concerto under Maestro Toshiyuki Shimada (Yale Symphony Orchestra), and in 2015 he created the piano part in Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon". He made his debut with orchestra in 2013 with the Plovdiv State Opera Orchestra. He is a sought-after chamber music partner and performs with various musicians and ensembles.
Since 2020 Petar Kostov has been working as a pianist for the Hamburg Ballet and the Hamburg Ballet School at the Hamburg State Opera.
