Born in 1999, London-based German Persian concert pianist Parvis Hejazi has been acclaimed as a “rising star on the piano sky” (Ulla Hamann, ARD). Born in 1999, Parvis is winner of over 30 national and international piano competitions, including the Grand Prix and Special Prize “Les Maitres du Piano” of the International Piano Competition Gagny, three first prizes at the Federal Jugend musiziert competition in Germany, and five awards at the Jeunesses Musicales Competition for Young Composers (Bundeswettbewerb Komposition). Parvis has performed with the Bremen Philharmonics under the baton of Marko Letonja, with the Jena Philharmonics under the baton of Markus Frank, with Musica Viva Orchestra under the baton of Nicolas Hrudnik, with Wratislavia Chamber Orchestra, Circle Symphony Orchestra, and others. In 2025, Parvis performed Pierre Boulez’s Sur Incises at Bradshaw Hall and CBSO Centre Birmingham under the baton of Daniele Rosina, making him one of only very few pianists to perform the work, which is notorious for its extreme difficulty. Parvis made his debut at Laeiszhalle Hamburg in 2015 upon winning the Federal Jugend Musiziert Competition. In 2016, he made his debut at the Wiener Saal Salzburg in 2016, following the prizewinner’s selection of the International Summer Academy Mozarteum in co-operation with the Salzburg Festival. Parvis now calls national and international stages in over 30 countries home, such as Die Glocke Bremen, Federal Chancellery Berlin, Villa Medici Giulini Milan, Gnessin Auditorium Moscow, the Old War Office London, the Kaufman Center and Klavierhaus in New York City. He has also given lecture recitals at the ConVivial Foundation Wiesbaden and Villa Ichon Bremen. There, Parvis has founded the concert series Salonkonzerte which has as its aim to present young, exceptionally talented musicians and music by underrepresented composers in an informal, salon-like setting, and thus make classical music more accessible to a wider audience.
Parvis has studied with some of the greatest pianists of the present day. In Germany, Austria, Italy, the UK, and the US, Parvis worked with Dmitrii Bashkirov, Dmitrii Alexeev, Konrad Elser, Markus Groh, Christopher Hinterhuber, Boaz Sharon, Stephen Hough, Jacob Leuschner, Igor Levit, Jerome Lowenthal, Gilead Mishory, Alon Goldstein, Dina Parakhina, Jerome Rose, Anatol Ugorski, Bob Versteegh, and Lars Vogt. In 2017, Parvis moved to the United Kingdom to study with Norma Fisher and Vanessa Latarche at the Royal College of Music in London, where he graduated from both Undergraduate and Masters degrees, as well as from the highly prestigious and coveted Artist Diploma in Performance programme as an RCM Scholar with highest distinctions. Since September 2024, Parvis is pursuing a PhD in Musicology on Portrayal and Contemplation of the Incarnation in Olivier Messiaen’s Musical Semantics, with Christopher Dingle, at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham City University. Parvis is a Scholar of the Cusanus Foundation of the German Bishops Conference. In addition, Parvis holds the Bärenreiter Urtext Award, the Music Talks Award, and the Carl Heinz Illies Award.
‘An exceptional talent. A wonderfully serious and committed artist.’ – Norma Fisher
As a chamber musician, Parvis has worked with artists including Matthieu Svetchine, Ron Maxim Huang, Jakob Schad, Payam Taghadossi, Leora Cohen, Francesco Bravi, and many others. He has worked with conductors such as Kilian Farrell, Daniele Rosina, Mark Stephenson, Clemens Heil, Nicolas Hrudnik, Marko Letonja, and Mikhail Khokhlov. Before moving to London, Parvis Hejazi studied piano and composition at the Junior Department of the University of the Arts Bremen with Almut Cordes and Jörg Birkenkötter, and has worked with leading composers, such as Mark Andre, Peter Michael Hamel, Martin Christoph Redel, Annette Schlünz, and others. His compositions have been recorded by HR radio. Documentaries, recordings, live broadcasts, and interviews have been transmitted by main German television stations, such as ARD, NDR, NDR Kultur, Deutschlandfunk, Radio Bremen, and others.
In addition to his busy performance schedule, Parvis is passionate about musicological and philosophical research. He is particularly interested in the area of aesthetics. He frequently presents papers at academic conferences, most recently at the Royal Musical Association in Aberdeen, at the Inaugural Conference of the International Network for Music Theology in Durham, at the ConVivial Foundation in Wiesbaden, at Netherhall House and at Pure in Heart London. Currently, Parvis undertakes research on the semiotic relationship between musical signs and theological meaning in Olivier Messiaen’s music. In 2017, Parvis became one of the youngest ever Fellows of the German Society of Philosophy (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie). From 2017 to 2024, he was a Scholar of the Royal College of Music and of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst. His sponsors also include Karin and Uwe Hollweg, Susan Sturrock, the Music Talks Foundation, and the Gisela and Erich Andreas Foundation. In his free time, Parvis enjoys cycling, reading and golf. He lives in Central London.
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