About Piano Cleveland

Robert Bily

February 02nd 2024

Robert Bily is a winner of over 70 national and international competitions. He has won First Prize at the Alexis Gregory Vendome Prize, Ettlingen International Piano Competition, Johann Nepomuk Hummel International Piano Competition, Prix du Piano Bern, and others.

Born in 1997 in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, Robert began to study piano at the age of six. From 2007 to 2014 he studied with Dirk Fischbeck in Halle. He continued his education as a student of Jacques Ammon in Leipzig and is currently studying with Pavel Gililov at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.

Robert has also attended piano masterclasses with renowned pianists and professors such as Emanuel Ax, Barry Douglas, Arie Vardi, Vincenzo Balzani, Daejin Kim, Robert Levin, Michel Beroff, and Claudio Martinez Mehner.

Robert regularly participates as a soloist at many prestigious music festivals including the Salzburg Festival, Händel Festspiele, and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. He has already performed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Italy, France, England, Ireland, Spain, Norway, and the United Arab Emirates, playing in prestigious halls such as the Georg Friedrich Händel-Halle in Halle, “Die Glocke” in Bremen, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, the MusicHall Dubai, the National Concert Hall in Dublin, and the Concert Hall of the Slovak Philharmonic in Bratislava.


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