Wenzislaw Jankow

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Wenzislaw Jankow 2007 in Porte Vendres

Wenzislav Jankow ( Bulgarian Венцислав Янков ; English transliteration Ventsislav Yankov , born March 24, 1926 in Sofia ) is a Bulgarian pianist.

life and work

Wenzislaw Jankow was born in 1926 in a musician's home in Sofia. He first studied at the city's conservatory. Then he studied at the Berlin Conservatory with Carl Adolf Martienssen . Here he obtained his degrees. Later he perfected his interpretation of the great classical masters with Wilhelm Kempff . He took part in a master class given by Edwin Fischer in Lucerne . In 1946 he settled in Paris, where he worked with Marguerite Long .

In 1949 he won the first prize of the International Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition in equal shares with Aldo Ciccolini . As a result of this success he gave concerts all over the world. He has performed with the most prestigious orchestras in Paris, London, Brussels, Luxembourg, Hamburg, Cologne, Copenhagen, Geneva, Bern, Lausanne, Milan, Sydney, Melbourne, Buenos Aires, New York, San Francisco under the direction of conductors such as Eugen Jochum , Hans Knappertsbusch , Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt , Carl Schuricht , Josef Krips , Günter Wand , Ferenc Fricsay , Freitas Branco , Ernest Ansermet , André Cluytens , Jean Martinon , Albert Delvaux , Serge Baudo , André Vandernoot , Adrian Boult , Leo Blech , Rafael Kubelík , Jascha Horenstein , Philippe Jordan , Rudolf Schwarz , Walter Goehr and others.

He also took part in numerous festivals (Aix en Provence, Prague etc.). He made numerous recordings. In 1977 he was appointed professor at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris. He gave courses at this conservatory until 1991. Until 2005, Jankow worked as a concert pianist in France.

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SURNAME Jankow, Wenzislaw
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Янков, Венцислав (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Sofia