Born in St. Petersburg in 2002, Ivan Bessonov has been playing the piano since the age of six. In 2015, he made his debut as a film composer. In 2021, Ivan graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory Central Music School (Valery Pyasetsky’s class). At the moment, he is a student at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Valery Pyasetsky’s class).
In 2016, Ivan gave his first solo recital at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. He has also performed with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation, the Tatarstan State Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the State Symphony Orchestra “Novaya Rossiya”, the St. Petersburg Chapel Symphony Orchestra and the Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra among others, cooperating with such prominent conductors as Valery Gergiev, Alexander Sladkovsky, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Vladimir Spivakov, Jan Latham-Koenig and touring the cities in Russia and abroad.
2015 – Grand prix at the International Frédéric Chopin Youth Competition (St. Petersburg)
2016 – First prize winner of the International Anton Rubinstein Competition “Piano Miniature in Russian Music” (St. Petersburg)
2016 – Prize winner and winner of the People’s Choice Award at I Grand Piano Competition (Moscow)
2017 – First prize winner of the International Competition ASTANA РIАNO PASSION-2017 (Astana)
2018 – Prize winner at II Grand Piano Competition (Moscow)
2018 – Winner of the Eurovision Young Musicians-2018 (Edinburg)
2019 – Winner of the International Professional Music Award “BraVo” (Discovery of the Year)
2020 – Grand prix of the All-Russian Competition for Young Musicians “Sozvezdie”
2021 – Winner of the Russian National Music Award “Victoria” (Discovery of the Year in Classical Music)
2022 – First prize winner of the Rachmaninoff International Competition for Pianists, Composers and Conductors (Moscow)
