Affiliated scholar/presenter; exact role to confirm
City St George's, University of London
Ivan Penev
Pianist and music analyst researching form and harmony in Liszt's piano music.
T&AM Reading Panel member for BSMT
Pianist and music analyst researching form and harmony in Liszt's piano music.
Role and activity in BSMT
Documented activity
- 2026-09-08 — Participant in BSMT Welcome Session, EuroMAC11
Biography
Ivan Penev has developed a professional profile connecting piano performance with analytical research on Romantic and late-Romantic music. Windsor Piano School reports bachelor's and master's training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland with Aaron Shorr and doctoral research at City, University of London on Liszt's piano-sonata repertory. Conference sources confirm this trajectory: at SotonMAC in 2019 Penev analysed 'Après une lecture du Dante', and at OxMAC23 he addressed its formal and harmonic frameworks. At EuroMAC11 in September 2026 he is listed as Dr Ivan Penev, affiliated with City St George's, University of London, with a paper on formal and harmonic transformations in Pancho Vladigerov. ESMUC lists him on the BSMT Reading Panel, and the programme includes him in the BSMT Welcome Session. As a performer and educator he teaches piano at Windsor Piano School. The exact doctoral conferral date was not established and remains for confirmation.
Current professional positions
Piano teacher
Windsor Piano School
Research profile
He researches the relationship between formal process, genre, harmony and performance interpretation, primarily in Franz Liszt's piano music.
Public sources
The profile is compiled from verifiable public sources; only sources recorded in the research dataset are shown.
- Meet Our Team – Ivan Penevofficial · HIGH
- EuroMAC11 paper: Processual Thinking in Pancho Vladigerovofficial · HIGH
- EuroMAC11 conference organization and T&AM Reading Panelofficial · HIGH
- OxMAC23 public programmeofficial · HIGH
- SotonMAC programmeofficial · HIGH