Petar P. Petrov

The Bulgarian pianist Petar P. Petrov, born in Sofia in 1974, was the soloist in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Sofia Philharmonic under Nayden Todorov in Bulgaria Hall on 14 February 2013. He studied at the National Academy of Music in Sofia with Atanas Kurtev, at the Royal Conservatory of Liège with Juliette Longrée-Poumay and at the Maastricht Conservatory with Avi Schönfeld; he has appeared as soloist with the Dortmund Philharmonic and the Sofia Philharmonic in concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann and Gershwin, has taught at the conservatories of Liège and Namur since 2014, and has been the official pianist of the Adolphe Sax International Saxophone Competition in Dinant since 2002.