Eva Gevorgyan awarded the Prix Serdang 2026
The Prix Serdang 2026, endowed with 50,000 Swiss francs, is awarded to pianist Eva Gevorgyan.
Eva Gevorgyan is a student of Natalia Trull at the Central Music School of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and a graduate of the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. She is a Yamaha Young Artist and has won prizes at more than forty piano competitions. Among others, she won first prizes at the Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists 2018 and at the Van Cliburn Young Artist Competition 2019.
In 2020, she was awarded the Klavier-Festival Ruhr scholarship by Evgeny Kissin. In 2021, as a 17-year-old, she was the youngest finalist and winner of a special prize at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw. In 2022, her first album with music by Frédéric Chopin and Alexander Scriabin was released by Melodiya.
The Prix Serdang was launched in 2022. The candidates are selected by the pianist Rudolf Buchbinder as curator. The selection is made jointly by Rudolf Buchbinder, Adrian Flury (initiator) and Thomas Pfiffner (project developer).
