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Biography

  Pianist Konstantin Zvyagin was born in 1990 in the ancient Russian city of Novgorod. He studied at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow with Professor Tatiana Zelikman before completing his Master's degree at the University of Music and Dance Cologne (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln) in the class of Professor Nina Tichman. Since January 2020, he has been a piano lecturer at the Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt.

  Konstantin Zvyagin is a prizewinner of numerous Russian and international piano competitions, including the International Lotar Shevchenko Piano Competition in Yekaterinburg (Russia), the Euregio Piano Award in Geilenkirchen (Germany), the 19th Concours International de Piano d'Île-de-France in Maisons-Laffitte (France), and the Crescendo International Music Competition in New York (USA). His artistic development has been supported by several prestigious scholarships and foundations, including the Werner Richard – Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation and the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation.

  As a soloist, chamber musician, and member of the Trio SpiegelBild, he has performed in Iceland, Ireland, Sweden, Poland, the United States, France, Italy, Spain, Israel, Russia, and Germany. He has also appeared at renowned festivals and participated in distinguished masterclasses, including the Tel-Hai International Piano Master Classes (Israel), the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, the Westphalian Music Festival in Hamm, and the Paderewski Piano Academy in Bydgoszcz (Poland). As a soloist, he has performed with the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, the Novgorod Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, the Toruń Symphony Orchestra, the Röttgen Chamber Orchestra, and the Collegium Musicum Bonn.

  In recent years, Konstantin Zvyagin has devoted himself intensively to the music of Richard Wagner. This work culminated in Wagners Ring – A Suite in Eight Pictures, a cycle of his own piano transcriptions from Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung. In recognition of this project, he was awarded a scholarship by the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation in 2023 and was selected by its jury to perform at the honorary ceremony for long-standing members of the Bayreuth Festival at Villa Wahnfried. His artistic achievements were further acknowledged with a special certificate of appreciation from the Festival management.

  In March 2024, the label Spektral released his critically acclaimed solo album Ein Weg durch Wagners Ring (A Journey through Wagner's Ring), while the corresponding sheet music was published by APOLLON Musikoffizin in Bonn. In 2025, he returned to Bayreuth both for the Festival's honorary ceremony at Villa Wahnfried and for the International Scholarship Holders' Concert of the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation at the Europa Hall. In 2026, he was awarded the KlassikSommer Music Award of the Westphalian Music Festival in Hamm, where the audience selected him as the festival's prizewinner for his performance of his Wagner transcriptions.

  In January 2025, the label Spektral also released the debut album Sceneries by his Trio SpiegelBild.

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