Lili Bogdanova is a Bulgarian pianist based in Berlin, who performs worldwide as a soloist and a chamber musician.
Lili Bogdanova, who was voted Young Musician of the Year by the Bulgarian National Radio in 2014, can already look back on an extensive concert career. She has performed worldwide as a soloist and given concerts in Bulgaria, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Great Britain, Slovakia, Serbia, Greece, Japan and the USA.
Some of her highlights of the past years were her performances with Brahms‘ First Piano Concerto and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto at the Metropolitan Theater in Tokyo with the local Mozart Virtuoso Orchestra, a concert with Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra as well as her successes at numerous international competitions (e.g. Strumenti e musica, Italy; „Princess Lalla Meryem“, Morocco etc.) and the release of her debut CD with works by Claude Debussy and César Franck. She played live on Deutschlandfunk Kulturradio and Rbb Kulturradio.
Chamber music is a big part of Lili’s music life which has led her to perform at venues like Konzerthaus Berlin, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Stefaniesaal Graz, Kunsthaus Salzwedel. Together with her Trio Brontë Lili is the First Prize winner of the 2025 „Schubert und die Musik der Moderne“ competition as well as the Second Prize winner of the 2025 „Felix Mendelssohn – Bartholdy Hochschulwettbewerb“. The Trio is also the First Prize winner of the 2023 Ilmari Hannikainen Piano Chamber Music Competition, where at the Final round they performed Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Jyväskylä Sinfonia under the baton of Jan Söderblöm.
Lili has been generously supported by the Lucia Löser Foundation for the past 5 years and has also received financial aid from Förderverein HfM Hanns Eisler, American Foundation in Bulgaria, Foundation Clavarte, Deutschlandstipendium, the Ottilie Selbach Redslob Foundation and others. Since 2019 she has been part of Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Berlin e. V.
In 2023 she started her own concert series at Salon L’ecritoire in Berlin with the financial support of Deutsche Orchester-Stiftung through their #MusikerZukunft Scholarship programme.
Lili studied in Bulgaria with Emilia Kaneva and Borislava Taneva, in Italy with Daniele Petralia, in Finland with Tuija Hakkila and is currently continuing her studies with Eldar Nebolsin at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. Another important mentor for her development is Alan Fraser.
Dates
01.03.2025 Duo Ilios at Schwartzsche Villa in Berlin, Germany
03.04.2025 Live Music Now Piano Trio with Sueye Park and Anna Kalvelage
11.05.2025 Trio Brontë at Syde Manor in Cheltenham, UK
16.05.2025 Trio Brontë at Riverhouse Arts Barn in London, UK
18.05.2025 Trio Brontë at Holland Music Sessions in Alkmaar, Netherlands
21.-25.05.2025 Trio Brontë at Performance Today Classical Danube Cruise
Past events
08.-15.02.2025 Trio Brontë at „Schubert und die Musik der Moderne“ chamber music competition in Graz Austria
27.01-07.02.2025 Britten Pears Chamber Music in Residence in Snape Maltings, UK
23.01.2025 Trio Brontë at London School of Economics
22.01.2025 Trio Brontë at Musikinstrumentenmuseum Berlin, Germany
14.01.2025 Trio Brontë at Piano Salon Christophori in Berlin, Germany
10.01.2025 Trio Brontë at Gemeindesaal Hoppegarten, Germany
15.12.2024 Trio Brontë at Mendelssohnhaus Leipzig, Gemany
08.12.2024 Trio Brontë at Scharwenka Haus, Bad Saarow, Germany
06.11.2024 Trio Brontë at Schloss Teutschenthal, Germany
02.10.2024 Live Music Now Piano Trio with Sueye Park and Anna Kalvelage at Palais Lichtenau Potsdam, Germany
30.06.2024: Duo Ilios at Apostel-Paulus-Kirche in Berlin, Germany
28.06.2024: Hommage à Paris Kammermusikfestival HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin, Germany
17.-18.06.2024: Schumann Piano Concerto at Forum Dirigieren in Gießen, Germany
13.06.2024: Live Music Now Cajewitz Stiftung Berlin, Germany
07.06.2024: Trio Brontë at Salon L’écritoire in Berlin, Germany
06.06.2024: Trio Brontë at Collage Concerts HfM Hanns Eisler in Berlin, Germany
16.05.2024: Recital with Annie Jacobs-Perkins at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, UK
12.05.2024: Recital with Annie Jacobs-Perkins in Walton-on-Thames, UK
05.05.2024: Recital with Annie Jacobs-Perkins in Syde Manor, UK
04.05.2024: Recital with Annie Jacobs-Perkins at the Oxford May Music Festival, UK
16.12.2023: Shared concert with Jazz pianist Michael Essl at Salon L’ecritoire in Berlin, Germany
10.12.2023: House concert in Berlin, Germany
27.11.2023: Graduation concert at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin (Charlottenstraße 55, Studiosaal, 18h)
23.11.2023: Duo Ilios at Apostel-Paulus-Kirche in Berlin, Germany
10.11.2023: Solo concert at Gemeindesaal Hoppegarten, Germany
05.11.2023: Concert with Lora Markova and Syon Najman at Salon L’ecritoire in Berlin, Germany
04.11.2023: Solo concert at Scharwenka-Haus Bad Saarow, Germany
25.10.2023 Solo concert at Katharinenhof Haus Abendstern Potsdam, Germany
20.10.2023: Trio Brontë at the Sofia Art Gallery, Bulgaria
16.10.2023: Trio Brontë at Salon L’écritoire in Berlin, Germany
12.10.2023: Duo concert with Eun-Che Kim at Theodor-Wenzel-Werk Berlin, Germany
08.10.2023: Duo Ilios at Schwartzsche Villa Berlin
29.09.2023: Duo Ilios at Salon L’écritoire in Berlin, Germany
29.-30.08.2023: Schumann Piano Concerto at Forum Dirigieren in Göttingen, Germany
23.06.2023: Recital in Hakodate, Japan
21.06.2023: Recital in Asahikawa, Japan
19.06.2023: Recital in Sapporo, Japan
16.06.2023: Recital in Obihiro, Japan
30.-31.05.2023: Schumann Piano Concerto at Forum Dirigieren in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
06.05.2023: Recital at Atelier Angela Frübing Potsdam, Germany
23.04.2023: Trio Brontë at Kunsthaus Salzwedel, Germany
02.-09.03.2023: Trio Brontë at Ilmari Hannikainen Piano Chamber Music Competition, Finland
23.02.2023, 19.30h: Trio Brontë at Salon L’écritoire Berlin, Germany
22.02.2023, 15.30h: Trio Brontë at Musikinstrumentenmuseum Berlin, Germany
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