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Tomislav Nedelkovic-Baynov was born in Sofia/Bulgaria in 1958.
Barely four years old, he began piano lessons. At the age of six he already won 1st prize at the National Piano Competition in Prowadia, Bulgaria.
Very impressive were his piano lessons in Sofia with V. Sawova. She had studied with F. Busoni's pupil Gottfried Galston and with Leonid Kreutzer. Baynov continued his studies with the Neuhaus student Prof. K. Ganev and with J. Ganeva at the Music School in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Besides he also studied composition. His artistic contact and studies brought him together with famous Bulgarian musicians and composers such as P. Vladigeroff, L. Pipkov, L. Nikolov, P. Hadjiev and others.
In 1981 Baynov left his home country for Vienna and Paris to be able to realise his artistic ideas in freedom. In the following years he gave numerous concert performances in various western countries. Between 1981 and 1986 he appeared 29 times as a soloist in the West Berlin Philharmonic Hall. At the end of 1981 Baynov moved to Germany. He studied at the State Academy of Music in Trossingen in the piano class of Prof. Johan van Beeks. After his basic studies to become a certified music teacher, he completed his postgraduate studies (artistic education and concert maturity), which he completed in 1991 with honours.
Master classes with Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Prof. Viktor Merzhanov and others rounded off his education.
Since 1982, he began music education activities at various German music schools, later also with several years of repetition activity, including at the Trossingen Music Academy. There he also took over the piano class of Johan van Beeks from 1988 to 1993. 1992-1997 Baynov was a lecturer at the conservatory in Trossingen. Baynov won numerous prizes and awards at international piano competitions in Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal and Czechoslovakia. He is also the winner of the "S. Rachmaninov Competition" 1990 in Morcone, Italy.
In 1999 Baynov was appointed as o. Professor at the State Academy of Music in Trossingen.
He regularly gives master classes in Germany, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and Slovakia. As a member of the jury Prof. Baynov was and is invited to international competitions in Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Canada and the Czech Republic. His pupils and students are prize winners on a national and international level. In 2002 he received the title of Prof. h.c. from the Chinese universities in Quing Dao and Chu Fu.
In 1989 T. Baynov founded the Baynov Piano Ensemble, which is unique in the world and is dedicated to rarely performed works for several pianos.
In 1997 Baynov started a project with courses and workshops for piano for six and eight hands. His scientific works and lectures try to preserve and revive the old traditions of playing the piano for several hands. He is president of the only "International Piano Competition for Six Hands" in Germany to date. Tomislav Baynov is the founder and chairman of the "Verein zur Förderung des mehrhändigen Klavierspiels e. V.". Thanks to his initiative, radio broadcasts, especially of six and multi-handed piano music, interviews and/or reviews of works are taking place in Germany, Bulgaria, Canada, Japan and Slovakia.
Baynov's artistic activities span all five continents and include numerous solo, chamber and orchestral concerts (with a repertoire of 42 piano concertos), as well as radio and television recordings in Germany (ZDF, SDR, SWF, BR, HR) in Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, Austria, South Africa, Australia, Canada, Korea and Chile, and CD recordings.
Tomislav Baynov's charisma as a globally active and recognised sensitive interpreter of very divergent musical works is characterised by high virtuosity and brilliant piano technique. With seemingly playful ease he inspires both his artistic fellow players and his audience. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)