ELDAR NEBOLSIN

Born into a musical family in Tashkent, Eldar Nebolsin launched his international career at the age of seventeen, becoming the youngest-ever winner of the Grand Prize at the Santander International Piano Competition. In 2005, he went on to receive First Prize at the Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition in Moscow.

Nebolsin studied with the legendary Russian pedagogue Dmitri Bashkirov and received invaluable artistic guidance from Ralf Gothóni, Márta Gulyás, Ferenc Rados and Andreas Staier. His earliest teachers were his parents and Natalia Wasinkina.

Eldar has performed with orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Orchestre de Paris, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and many others. His collaborations with distinguished conductors have included Mstislav Rostropovich, Riccardo Chailly, Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin and Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Since 2013, Eldar Nebolsin has served as Professor of Piano at the prestigious Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. Before taking up this position, he taught chamber music for several years at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, alongside Menahem Pressler, Márta Gulyás and Ralf Gothóni.