Ivaylo Vassilev was born in 2007 in Sofia. He showed his interest for the classical music and piano at a very early age. For the period 2014-2019 he was a student of Emilia Kaneva in the National School of Music in Sofia. Since summer of 2019 he studies with prof. d-r Borislava Taneva.
He has more than 20 prizes from competitions, the most significant of which are: “Nutcracker”, Moscow 2018 (Golden Nutcracker - winner); “Vladimir Krainev”, Moscow, 2019 (Diplomant); “Ciudad de Leganes”, Madrid, 2018 (I prize); "De Bach au Jazz", Athens, 2018 (Grand Prix); “Anna Artobolevskaya”, Moscow, 2017 (I prize); "Astana Piano Passion 2017" (Diplomant); “Cesar Franck”, Brussels, 2016 (II prize); "Münchner Klavierpodium”, Munich, 2016 (Winner); "Virtuosi per musica di pianoforte", Usti-nad-Labem, 2015 (II prize); The most significant prize form online competitions is the Grand Prize at Enkor International Competition in category Piano in 2017. He has also several first prizes from Great Composers Competitions series.
He has participated in several international piano festivals, like Wunderkinder 2018 (Italy), Piano Extravaganza (Sofia), Stage4Kids (Hamburg); Musical Olympus (St. Petersburg).
As a soloist he has performed with the directors Konstantin Ilievsky, Mischa Damev, Georgi Patrikov, Nikola Petrov, Alexander Titov, Alexander Chernushenko, Sascha Goetzel.
He plays chamber music, accompanies, improvises, arranges various music styles. He has many own compositions for piano solo, chamber music, also a piano concerto.
Ivaylo plays chamber music, accompanies, improvises, arranges various music styles. He also has already many compositions for piano solo, chamber music (mostly violin and piano), also a concerto for piano and a Baroque orchestra; some of them are already performed. His accompaniment debut was with the Bulgarian violinist and conductor Martin Panteleev.
In the period 2018-2019 Ivaylo has had lessons with Ludmil Angelov (Bulgaria/Spain), Vasily Ilisavsky (Russia/Bulgaria) and Philippe Raskin (Belgium).
He has attended many other masterclasses since 2016 with world known pianists and pedagogues.
