Lili Bogdanova

Pianist Lili Bogdanova, named Young Musician of the Year by the Bulgarian National Radio in 2014, already looks back on an extensive concert career. She has performed worldwide as a soloist and given concerts in Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, USA and others. Performance highlights include Brahms First Piano Concerto and Beethoven Triple Concerto at the Metropolitan Theatre in Tokyo with the Mozart Virtuoso Orchestra, Clara Schumann Piano Concerto with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and several performances at Konzerthaus in Berlin.

Lili is a prizewinner of numerous international competitions including “Strumenti e musica”, Italy and “Princess Lalla Meryem”, Morocco. In 2014 she released her debut CD with works by Claude Debussy and César Franck. She has played live on Deutschlandfunk Kulturradio and Rbb Kulturradio in Germany. She has received support from the American Foundation in Bulgaria, Foundation Clavarte, Deutschlandstipendium, the Ottilie Selbach Redslob Foundation, Förderverein HfM Berlin and the Lucia Loeser Foundation. Since 2019 Lili has been a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now, Berlin. Lili is also an avid chamber musician, performing regularly with multiple ensembles including her piano trios “Brontë” and “Ilios”.

Lili studied in Bulgaria with Emilia Kaneva and Borislava Taneva, in Italy with Daniele Petralia and at the Sibelius Academy in Finland with Tuija Hakkila. Currently she is Eldar Nebolsin’s student at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. Another important mentor for Lili is Alan Fraser.