Svetlana Slivinskaya – journalist and music criticist in St. Petersburg during Musical Olympus Festival 2019:
“Ivaylo’s appearance in the music world might be called a divine providence, like Glen Gould’s appearance in the past. His performance of Bach’s piano concerto in D-minor was saturated with unheard beauty and deep philosophy, inspiring delight and meditation, unveiling new depths in time and space with the great composer’s music.”
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Kalina Tomova (Art Journalist): “An important accent of the evening under the baton of Pavel Balev was the performance of the young piano virtuoso Ivaylo Vassilev of M. Ravel’s G-major concerto. This vivid music, so well suited for the 14-year-old wunderkind, gave him the chance to demonstrate not only his technical mastery, well known to the audience already, but also to reveal his inner self – especially in the second movement, where are necessary particularly great doses of sensitivity and intelligence, so that a musician is able to transcendent in the most astonishing way the beautiful unaccompanied by the orchestra theme – without making it simply banal, in the same time without burdening it with artificial phrasings – this was fully achieved by Ivaylo Vassilev at this concert.”
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Justas Dvarionas: “He plays with natural and deep feeling that shows us all colors of the rainbow.”
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Balazs Fülei: “In his playing there is sensitivity, poetry, personality, fantasy, concentration and consciousness.”
Pavel Zlatarov (violin), Sofia Philharmonics and Philharmonica String Quartet concertmaster names Ivaylo “The pianist with whom I would like to play chamber music from now on.”
Review and interview about Ivaylo’s first CD release at Bulgarian National Radio
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