| Biography | Ventsislav Yankov was a Bulgarian pianist and pedagogue.
Trained in Berlin, he settled in France in 1946; three years later he won ex-aequo with Aldo Ciccolini the III Concours Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud's Grand Prize. An intercontinental concert career ensued. Yankov was a professor emeritus at the Conservatoire of Paris, where he held a professorship (19771991). As of 2005, he was still active as a concert pianist in France. |