Laureate and audience prize winner at the 63rd F. Busoni International Piano Competition (Italy, 2021).
Vladimir Petrov has been celebrated as “one of the best pianists of his generation” (Viviana Aubele, «Martin Wullich journal»). Critics have hailed him as “an amazing, highly talented pianist” (Denis Matsuev, Madiazvod) whose playing embodies “rare musicality and inimitable spirit” (Yurii Danilin, Literary Gazette). With roots in Russia, Petrov was raised from the age of three in Mexico, which he affectionately considers his homeland.
In addition to his appearance at the Busoni competition, he has also found success at numerous other international competitions, including first-prize wins at international competitions, such as «Lotar Shevchenko» in Russia; «Ciudad de Vigo» (Spain); «Jose Jacinto Cuevas» – Yamaha (Mexico); «NTD piano competition» (New York, USA), and
«Neapolitan Masters Competition» (Italy).
His active concert career has included performances in Spain, Germany, France, South Korea, the United Stated, Holland, Russia, Italy, Hungary, Malta, Cyprus, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, Belarus, Romania, Italy, Argentina, Colombia, and Chile.His concert activity includes several appearances at the most famous concert halls, such as the «Salle Cortot» in Paris, France, «Salle Frank Martin» in Geneva, Switzerland, Carnegie Hall (Weill Hall) in New York, USA, the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory, Bolshoi and
Mariinsky Theatres in Russia. Vladimir Petrov has performed with major orchestras in Europe, collaborated with many conductors, including Valery Gergiev, Lanfranco Marceletti, Tito Muñoz, Pavel Gerstein, Gleb Skvortsov, among others. Additionally, he has collaborated in concert tours with the great violinists Graf Mourzha and Kristof Barati.
He has released four solo albums, including «Encores» (2021, «Mans» label, Spain), his 2019 release including Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes, was recorded in the famed Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. The next album is scheduled for release in 2025, was recorded in New York.
Vladimir Petrov graduated from the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow in 2020, where he studied with Valerii Piassetsky, and Elisso Virsaladze (top-graduate student of the year award). He continued his studies at the Hochschüle für Musik F. Liszt in Germany, with Grigory Gruzman.
Currently based in New York, he is pursuing a postgraduate degree at the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Horacio Gutierrez.
