Viktor Benev

happy birthday, giant. 🖤

🤍❄️🌿🧸🚗☃️

well, looking back at 2025, it has treated me rather well. here are a few photos without any particular order.

1. with Bilyana Furnadzhieva at the window / happy faces after our performance. thanks andrea weber
2. the crystal sound project performance in question
3. our gig at TAM / always such a pleasure to be at veliko tarnovo and collaborate with the team. looking forward to coming back
4. at Художествена галерия - Казанлък / Art gallery - Kazanlak for an unforgettable night of music with Nikolai Ivanov
5. had a great time playing with these human beings delphine minoui, alice rahimi, Hura Mirshekari, Babak Amir Mobasher, elia chalom on a couple of occasions
6. got a grand piano ! beautiful old gaveau. we're talking quite a lot with it and it's been a true gift of faith
7. learned to tune pianos / budget solutions, man... what can i say...
8. spent countless hours creating music for the dance students in cma13 and at crr de boulogne-billancourt. the team at both is fabulous. feeling blessed to work with these people isabelle pipard, yorick grand, magali verin
9. of course, time with cats is never wasted. eriko in all of her splendor, ladies and gents
10. did some agriculture work with some buddies. reuniting with nature is always needed.
11. spent quality time with my family. my energetic and splendid niece on the photo.
12. got my own first car, baby. more than happy. 7000km and counting.
13. learned and did quite a lot of mechanic work. seems like it's something i love doing. you never know what life's got for you, do you ?
14. at deauville. we visited quite a bunch of places this year. wonderful sceneries. good memories.
15. spent countless hours in the studio. one full album and a single this year. not as productive as i'd like, but still a milestone and i'm happy with the music.
16. ticking the "needed to-buy" list little by little and i finally bought this instrument, which has been waiting for quite some time.

that's it !

i hope i've brought light and love to all the people i've encountered this year. you sure inspired me, so big "thank you" to all of you who have been part of this year's journey. may 2026 be at least as great ! happy new year, all.

peace & love
vik