22nd
València
ITURBI
International
Piano
Competition
From May 31 to June 10, 2023
Sebastian Iivonen
Sebastian Iivonen (b.1997) was born in Stockholm, Sweden where he began his piano studies at the age of six with Natalia Kazimirovskaia and Tamara Poddubnaya. He has then received his Bachelors degree at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm/Edsberg Manor studied under Mats Widlund. Sebastian is currently studying for prof. Julia Mustonen-Dahlkvist as an Artist in Residence at the Ingesund Piano Center in Arvika, Sweden.
At the age of 9, Sebastian was the winner of 2007 Steinway Piano Competition in Stockholm. A year later, he made his concerto debut at the Stockholm Concert Hall with the Stockholm Youth Symphony-Orchestra (SUSO) performing Kabalevsky Piano Concerto No.3. At the age of 12, Sebastian made his sold-out solo recital debut at the Centro Cultural in Los Cristianos, Tenerife.. In the same year, he was also awarded with the prestigious “Mai von Rosens Scholarship” in Stockholm. In 2012, Sebastian was invited by ”The Vladimir Spivakov Foundation” to perform at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow. Since then, he has won first prizes at 2008 Concours International de Piano “Simone Delbert Fevriér” in France, 2009 Concours International de Piano Côte D’azur in France, Stockholm International Music Competition in 2010/2011/2012/2015, 2016 “Young Artists” Stockholm and 2016 Nilüfer Piano International Music Competition in Turkey.
