Amélie Bertrand Panayótova

Amélie Bertrand Panayótova is a bulgarian pianist born in February, 2013, in Andorra la vella.

She began to study piano at the age of 5. From the very beginning and till August 2023 Panayótova took regularly piano lessons with her father, Milén P.Panayótov and private music lesson in ear training with Anahi Pinoargotty. In the summer of 2021 she took 15 days intensive piano course with Gergana Perindibazova (Bulgaria). From September 2021 Panayótova started once every three months piano lessons with the bulgarian pianist Ludmil Angelov (Valencia, Spain) and from August 2023 she also started her regular piano studies with Viktoria Shereshevskaya in the “MUSIMAX” Group of Talents in the Geneva Music Conservatory.

In April 2023, she participated in the Ludmil Angelov’s Piano Masterclass in the Forum Musikae High School of Music, Madrid, Spain. The same year, in july, she participated in the Piano Masterclass organized by the “P.Vladigerov” music school, Burgas, Bulgaria.

Ms.Panayótova realised her fisrt piano solo recital in Flora ExpoCenter of Burgas, Bulgaria on 7th of july 2023.

Amélie Bertrand Panayótova is a:
1st prize winer in the Geneva Music Conservatory indoor competition “Mesdames” (Switzerland, 2024)
2nd prize winer in the Geneva Junior Music Competition (Switzerland, 2023)
1st prize winner in the XXIVth Santa Cecilia International Competition (Portugal, 2022)

Previously, and because of the Covid19 pandemic measures Ms.Panayótova has participated only in online piano competitions. She is the winner in her category of 1st prize in “Orbetello Online Piano Competition” (Italy, 2022), 1st prize in Frantz Liszt Center “International Piano Competition” (Spain, 2022) and 1st prize in Craiova-Piano International Competition (Rumania 2021). Panayótova is also a prize-winner at the Chopin Avenue Piano Competition (Chopin Award for Nocturne and Consul General Award, Hong Kong, 2021, online edition) and a prize-winner at the IIIth International Virtual Competition “Flying Stage”, (2nd prize, Burgas, Bulgaria, 2020).