Year of birth: 1997
Place of birth: Moscow
Educated in: Basel
Place of residence: Basel
(Plays in Vienna)
K. Stockhausen Klavierstück VIII F. Liszt Sonata in B minor, S. 178
Dmitry Batalov studied piano with Prof. Natalia Trull at the Central Music School and the Moscow Conservatory. Since 2022, he has been based in Switzerland, where he studies at the Basel Music Academy. There, he completed a Master’s degree in Specialized Contemporary Music Performance, followed by a postgraduate course in piano, and is now pursuing a Specialized Master’s degree in solo performance. He won Second Prize at the 14th Orléans Piano Competition (France, 2020), First Prize at the Concours Nicati (Switzerland, 2025), and the 2025 Göhner Musikpreis. In recent years he has participated in festivals such as Voices (Berlin), Tzlil Meudcan (Tel Aviv), and Bartolomeo Cristofori (Padova), and has collaborated with composers like Helmut Lachenmann, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Marco di Bari, among others.
Withdrawn candidates:
Daria Podorozhnova
Qinyaoyao Ji
Jeongwoo Lee