Pianist Pavel Egorov graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky in 1975, where he studied under the guidance of professor Tatyana Nikolaeva and professor Vera Gornostaeva.

In 1974 he was awarded First Prize and Golden Medal at the Schumann International Competition in Zwickau, Germany.

Since 1976 works and resides in St. Petersburg, where he completed post-graduate studies at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov in 1980. From that on he successfully combines teaching with concert engagements.

Professor Egorov has been a frequent jury member of all kinds of National and International Piano Competitions (the Schumann Competition in Zwickau, the Tchaikovsky Juvenial Competition, «Virtuosi 2000», «A step to Parnassus» and others) and from 1989 he is the Head of Jury at the annual International Competition of Piano Duets «Brother and sister» in St. Petersburg.

Pavel Egorov combines his artistic and pedagogique work with scientific research. He is the author of the first Russian edition of the Complete Works for piano of Robert Schumann in seven volumes. In 1989 he was awarded the International «Schumann-prize» and elected as Honorary Member of the Schumann Society, Dusseldorf. In 2002 Pavel Egorov has completed the first Russian urtext edition of the Well-tempered clavier of J.S. Bach.

He is a renowned music researcher and scientific editor, Honorary Member of the Filharmonic Society in St. Petersburg, has been awarded the Order of Polish Republic «Merit in Culture» in 2003, elected an active member of the St. Petersburg Department of Education and Scientific Development of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in 2007.

The official website of Pavel Egorov: http://pavelegorov.ru/