Yury Favorin

Yury Favorin Юрий Владимирович Фаворин
Background information
Born	(1986-12-17) 17 December 1986 Moscow, Soviet Union
Genres	Classical
Occupation	Pianist
Instruments	Piano

Yury Favorin (Russian: Ю́рий Влади́мирович Фаво́рин; born December 17, 1986, in Moscow) is a Russian pianist.

Yury Favorin studied in Moscow at the Gnesins High School of Music. In 2004-2009 he studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with professor M.S. Voskresensky.^[1]

He took part at the Academy of the Festival Verbier (Switzerland, 2011), and the International Holland Music Sessions (TIHMS) (The Netherlands, 2011).

• The 1st Nikolay Rubinstein Competition for Young Pianists (Moscow), 1st prize (Moscow, 2001)
• Gyorgy Cziffra Foundation, 1st prize (Wien, Austria, 2003)
• Andrey Petrov All-Russia Prize for Young Composers (“Crystal Tuning Fork”)

• Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium. Piano 2010. 3 CDs + Encore:

CD 1 — F. Liszt. Concerto n. 1 in E flat major

CD 2 — J.-L. Fafchamps. Back to the Sound

Encore — F. Schubert. Sonata in E flat major D 568

• Anthology of the Russian Piano Music. Vol. 1 (1917–1991)

CD 1: Nikolay Myaskovsky. Sonata no. 3, op. 19 (1920) ("Kapellmeister", studio-recording 2010)

• Nikolay Medtner: Complete Piano Sonatas. In 4 CDs

CD 4: Sonata e-moll "Night Wind", op. 25 no. 2 (Moscow State Conservatory, live 2009)

• Franz Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (Muso Label, 2013)

• It Don’t Mean a Thing (with Alexei Sysoyev and Konstantin Sukhan, Creative Sources, 2014)

• Alexei Sysoyev: Selene (2 CD, Fancy Music, 2015)

• Prokofiev, Popov, Shostakovich, Rebikov, Feinberg (Melodiya, 2016)

• Sergei Prokofiev, 2 violin sonatas, 5 melodies (with Aylen Pritchin, Melodiya, 2017)

• Charles-Valentin Alkan: Piano works (Muso Label, 2017)

• Franz Liszt: Années de pèlerinage (Live, 3 CD, Melodiya, 2021)

• Sound Review 3: Boris Tishchenko, Nikolai Sidelnikov (Melodiya, 2022)

• Sergei Prokofiev, 6th Piano Sonata (Meshina Records, 2025)

• Gennady Banshchikov, 5 Piano Sonatas (Melodiya, 2025)

• Olivier Messiaen Competition
• Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
• Marc-André Hamelin. Two Etudes from the «Twelve Etudes in Minor Keys»
• Tichon Khrennikov. Concerto №2, 3rd mov. Gala Concert from International Yampolsky Violin Competition 2008 (violin & piano)
• Franz Schubert. Sonate in E♭ D 568 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition (piano). Semi-Final (Recital May 10, 2010)
• Franz Liszt. Concerto no. 1 in Es Queen Elisabeth Music Competition (piano). Final (May 24, 2010)

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