Eva Gevorgyan (

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: Ева Геворгян,

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: Եվա Գևորգյան; born 15 April 2004) is a Russian-Armenian pianist and composer.

Biography

Eva Gevorgyan was born in

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. She is a piano student at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory in the class of Natalia Trull and also at Reina Sofia School of Music in class of Stanislav Ioudenitch. She is a scholarship holder of the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein. She perfected her skills at the International Piano Academy “Lago di Como” in Italy under the supervision of Stanislav Ioudenitch,

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and

Dmitri Bashkirov Dmitri Aleksandrovich Bashkirov (; November 1, 1931 – March 7, 2021) was a Russian pianist and academic teacher. Trained in his hometown Tbilisi and Moscow, he began an international career as a soloist when he won the Marguerite Long Piano Co ...

. She participated in master classes conducted, among others, by

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, Grigory Gruzman,

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, and

Boris Petrushansky Boris Petrushansky (born 3 June 1949 in Moscow) is a Russian-Italian pianist. Petrushansky started an intercontinental concert career in the mid-1970s after graduating from the Moscow Conservatory. Among his teachers were Heinrich Neuhaus and Lev ...

. She has performed at numerous festivals, including

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, the International Chopin Festival in

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. She has collaborated with many ensembles, such as the

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, The

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, The

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, and conductors, including

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and

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. In 2021, she was a finalist at the

XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition The XVIII International Chopin Piano Competition () was held from 2 to 23 October 2021 in Warsaw. Originally scheduled for 2020, the quinquennial competition was twice postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 87 pianists from 18 countries took p ...

. She received the prize for the youngest female finalist in the Competition which is an extra-statutory prize.

Selected awards and achievements

* Giuliano Pecara International Piano Competition in Gorizia (2016) – Grand Prix * Robert Schumann International Piano Competition in Düsseldorf (2017) – 1st prize * International Grand Piano Competition in Moscow (2018) – five special awards * International Piano Competition for Young Artists in Cleveland (2018) – 1st prize and special prize for the best performance of a Bach piece * Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition (2019) - 2nd prize and press award * Chicago International Music Competition (2020) – Grand Prix and a special award for the best performance of a Chopin piece * Award in the “Discovery of the Year” category, as part of the International Classical Music Award program (2019) * Scholarship of the Ruhr Piano Festival (Klavier-Festival Ruhr), chosen by Evgeny Kissin (2020) * The title of “Young Yamaha Artist” (2021)

Biography

Selected awards and achievements

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