A prizewinner at the Viotti and the Chopin International Piano Competition, Mr. Gililov is a professor at the Universitat Mozarteum Salzburg and the Hochschule fur Musik und Tanz Koln, where he has instructed a long list of international award-winning pianists. In 2005, Pavel Gililov founded the International Telekom Beethoven Competition Bonn where he is currently the artistic director and jury president.