Igor Parfenov

Igor Parfenov began playing the piano at six in Saint Petersburg, later studying at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He continued his education with Prof. Josef Anton Scherrer at the Cologne University of Music and Dance in Wuppertal and completed his master’s degree with Prof. Lisa Eisner-Smirnova in Düsseldorf in 2023.

His concert activity includes solo appearances and performances with the Sinfonietta Cologne and the Bergische Symphoniker. At the Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal, he performed Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with the university orchestra under Prof. Werner Dickel and, in 2024, gave a solo concert inaugurating a new grand piano.