Muidinov Muzaffar

Muzaffar Muidinov born in 1993 in Tchernogolovka (Moscow region). He grew up in a musical family and begun to play the piano at the age of 7 in the Art and Music School in Tchernogolovka. After learning with F.Dubowitsky at the Music school he went on to study at the Academic Music College by Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of T. Direktorenko (2008-2012). Since 2012 he studies at the University of Music and Theater Hamburg (Germany) under the tutelage of Prof. E. Koroliov. Already at the very early age he won prizes at many important competitions: in 2007 he became a first-prize winner of the Competition “Music at the edge of 19/20 Century” in the city of Kotelnikow, second - prize winner of the “Merzlyakovka” competition in Moscow in 2009, and in 2011 he won the famous competition “Muzykalnyj Almaz” in Moscow. Furthermore, he was the participant of the Forum of the Russian pianists “PRORYW 2009”. A very active concert life in Russia and Germany proves his creative work. He performed a lot in his home city of Tchernogolovka as well as in Moscow. From 2010 to 2012 he was deeply engaged in the projects of V.Spivakov International Charity Foundation, for which he performed a lot of concerts. He also gave solo recitals every summer from 2009 to 2014 in Neubibeg, Germany. Since this year he has also been a participant of the “Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now”. He got a lot of experience as a pianist and accompanist in the Baltic Philarmonic Youth Orchestra, while performing with them, among others, at the Berliner Philarmonie, Warsaw Philarmonie, Kurhaus Wiesbaden, and Schleswig -Holstein Music Festival. Since 2015 Muzaffar Muidinov studies in the class of Prof. H.Rutkowski. In May 2015 he won the First Prize in the Elise-Meyer Competition in Hamburg, and in June 2015 he became a winner of the Steinway Furtherance Prize (Hamburg). In May 2016 he and his duo partner-soprano Johanna Will won the Gustav Mahler Lied Competition of the Rochna Foundation. In summer 2020 Muzaffar began his master\'s degree at the University of Music and Theater Hamburg with Prof. Hubert Rutkowski.