Edvin Revazov was born in Sevastopol, Ukraine, and trained in Moscow and at the School of the Hamburg Ballet. He joined the Hamburg Ballet in 2003 and was promoted to Soloist in 2007. In 2010, he was promoted to Principal.
He has performed numerous title roles and leading solo parts in ballets by John Neumeier, including the title role in Peer Gynt. Together with John Neumeier, he created roles including Tadzio in Death in Venice, the title role in Parzival – Episodes and Echo, Apollo in Orpheus, Gate Keeper in Liliom, Eugene Onegin in Tatiana, Count Alexei Vronsky in Anna Karenina, Tennessee in The Glass Menagerie and An Officer in Dona Nobis Pacem. He has also danced in ballets by Jerome Robbins, George Balanchine, John Cranko, Christopher Wheeldon and Demis Volpi.
Edvin Revazov has created numerous works for the Young Choreographers programme and, together with Marc Jubete and Aleix Martínez, the ballet evening Shakespeare – Sonnets for the Hamburg Ballet.
He founded the Hamburg Chamber Ballet and has won numerous prizes, most recently the John Neumeier Prize for Choreography in 2023.
