About
Tomas Dratva, Pianist
Founder of PIANOVERSAL
PIANOVERSAL launched in June 2017 as the world's first purely digital music label for classical and contemporary piano music. At PIANOVERSAL, the piano takes centre stage: the piano as a solo instrument and as a chamber music instrument in all its historical and contemporary facets.
PIANOVERSAL.COM invites you to engage with facts, background information, stories and opinions about piano music and piano playing. The PIANOVERSALRegister – the unique knowledge base on piano music from 1880 to the present – is freely accessible to the piano community.
Until today the label had released 17 digital recordings by 15 artists. PIANOVERSAL lists over 10,000 piano works composed since 1880 by 570 composers.
PIANOVERSAL GmbH was founded in 2017 by Swiss pianist Tomas Dratva.
Tomas Dratva – Pianist
"Tomas Dratva extracts maximum vitality from the score." (NZZ)
Swiss pianist Tomas Dratva studied piano in Basel, Lucerne and London and made his début with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich while still a student, in 1992. Since then, he performed regularly as a soloist and chamber musician in many countries around the world. Performances in concert series and festivals in Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Dallas, San Francisco, London, Paris, Berlin, Bonn, Basel, Lugano, New York City, Washington DC, Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Weimar, Bayreuth, Stockholm, Minsk, and Krakow are part of his career, as are solo concerts with numerous orchestras.
From 1993 to 2010, Tomas Dratva was the pianist of Trio Animæ and performed over 100 piano trios with this ensemble in unchanged lineup. In 2017, he founded the music label PIANOVERSAL – the world's first purely digital music label for classical and contemporary piano music.
Tomas Dratva cultivated a versatile repertoire: engagement with contemporary music, research into discoveries and rediscoveries, as well as exploration of historical pianos. Tomas Dratva was a passionate piano pedagogue and mentor. Tomas Dratva passed away unexpectedly in October 2025.
"...as if Franz Liszt himself were gracing us with a piano recital." (WDR)
"An extraordinarily gifted pianist of rare intelligence and sensitivity." (Fanfare Magazine)
"Tomas Dratva est un pianiste superbe" (RTS)