Nordic Music Played by
Young Bulgarian
Pianists
Hilding Rosenberg (1892 – 1985, Sweden):
Plastic
Scenes (Plastiska
Scener) for solo piano (1921) *
I.
Largamente
II. Tempo
giusto
III.
Moderato
IV. Lento
V. Quasi
recitative
VI.
Allegretto
VII. Presto
VIII.
Andantino
Performed by Ines Simeonova
Hallgrímur Helgason (1914 – 1994, Iceland):
From Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 1 (1936) *
IV. Intermezzo
V. Allegro
con moto
Performed by Stiliyana Ivanova
Arne Nordheim (1931 – 2010, Norway):
Listen for solo piano (1971) *
Performed by Petar Karagenov
Hans
Abrahamsen
(b. 1952, Denmark):
From
Ten Studies for Piano (1984 – 1998) *
I. Dream Song (Traumlied)
III. Arabesque (Arabeske)
IV. End (Ende)
VIII. The River of Oblivion (Rivière
d'oubli)
IX. Cascades (Cascades)
Performed by Gergana Nestorova
Magnus
Lindberg
(b. 1958, Finland):
From
Piano Jubilees for solo piano (2000)
*
Jubilee II
Jubilee
III
Jubilee
IV
Jubilee
V
Performed by Lili Bogdanova
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* Bulgarian premiere
* * *
Ines Simeonova
was born in Dobrich (Bulgaria). She graduated in 2013 from the “Lyubomir
Pipkov” National School of Music in the class of Mariana Shikova (Piano). In
the same year, she was admitted to the “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” National
Academy of Music (Sofia), where she is currently studying piano under Prof.
Borislava Taneva, PhD.
She
has been awarded numerous prizes from piano and chamber music competitions in
Bulgaria, Romania, Germany and the USA.
Over
the years she has been an active participant in the master classes of many
famous piano professors in Bulgaria and abroad, including: Hiroaki Takenouchi,
Ian Jones, Igor Petrin, Daniele Petralia, Naum Grubert, Marco Perini, Marina
Horak, Fulvio Turisini, Natalia Trull, Tamara Poddubnaya, Sachiko Kodama, Peter
Donohoe, Joan Havill, Andrew Johnston, Milena Mollova, Ludmil Angelov, Viktor
Chuchkov, Zheni Zaharieva and others.
Ines
Simeonova has also taken part in many concerts in various venues within Sofia,
including: Studio 5, Bulgarian
National Radio Concert Studio, “Lyubomir Pipkov” National School of Music –
Concert Hall, Bulgaria Hall, National Palace of Culture and others.
Stiliyana Ivanova
was born in 1992 in Stara Zagora (Bulgaria). She graduated from the
"Christina Morphova" National School of Music and Performing Arts
(Stara Zagora), where she studied Piano with Mariana Marincheva. Currently, she
is a student at the "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" National Academy of
Music under Prof. Stella Dimitrova-Maystorova and Assos. Prof. Iliya Chernaev.
She has participated in a number of master classes given by Prof. Dimo Dimov,
Prof. Atanas Kourteff, Prof. Borislava Taneva, Prof. Milena Mollova, Aglika
Genova and Lyuben Dimtrov.
She
has been awarded prizes at international competitions including: Classical and Contemporary (Stara
Zagora, 2004 – third prize, 2008 – first prize), "Franz Shubert"
(Rousse, 2009 – second prize), "Svetoslav Obretenov" (Provadia, 2012
– first prize), "Brahms – Rachmaninov" Academic Competition (Sofia,
2013 – special prize), Sixth Academic Competition for Chamber Music (Sofia,
2014 – second prize).
She
has performed as a soloist with the Orchestra of the State Opera in Stara
Zagora, the Sliven Philharmonic Orchestra and the Academic Symphony Orchestra
of the "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" National Academy of Music in Sofia.
Petar Karagenov
was born in Sofia
in 1993, to a family of musicians. He graduated from the National School of
Music and Dance Art (Plovdiv), where he studied Piano with Stella Oslekova. Since
2012, he has been a student at the “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” National Academy
of Music (Sofia), where he studies in the class of Prof. Stella Dimitrova-Maystorova.
He
has participated in master classes given by famous foreign and local professors
– Atanas Kourteff, Tamara Poddubnaya, Milena Mollova, Bozhidar Noev, Georgi
Slavchev,
Anna Petrova,
Teresa Trevisan, Flavio Zaccaria, Aglika Genova and Lyuben Dimitrov.
Petar
Karagenov has won awards from prestigious national competitions, among them: “Lyuba Encheva” Special
Prize at the Academic Piano Competition (Sofia,
2014) and the Special Prize of
Bulgarian Ministry of Culture at the “Liszt – Bartók” International Piano
Competition (Sofia, 2015).
He
has been a regular soloist with the Vratsa Symphony Orchestra and the Plovdiv
Symphony Orchestra, as well as with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the “Prof.
Pancho Vladigerov” National Academy of Music.
In
2013, 2014 and 2015, he took part in the International Festival of Contemporary
Piano Music ppIANISSIMO.
Gergana Nestorova was born in Nessebar
(Bulgaria). She graduated in 2008 from the “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” National
School of Music and Stage Arts (Burgas), where she studied piano
with Julia Nenova. From 2008 to 2013 she was a student at the “Prof. Pancho
Vladigerov” National Academy of Music (Sofia) under Prof. Marina Kapatsinskaya.
In 2013 Gergana earned her Master’s Degree and now she is a PhD candidate at
the same Academy.
In 2010 she participated
in the master class of Prof. Dmitri Bashkirov as a part of The International
Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria. She has won awards from international
competitions in Bulgaria, Rumania, France and Italy.
Gergana Nestorova has had
various concert performances both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. She
has participated in the European Music Festival (2013), ppIANISSIMO International Festival of Contemporary Piano Music
(2011 and 2015), the Concert for the 90th Anniversary
of National Academy of Music – Sofia (2011). She has also performed as a
soloist with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonietta – Vidin, Burgas Philharmonic Orchestra and the Academic
Orchestra
of the National Academy of Music.
She has recorded for
Bulgarian National Radio and Bulgarian National Television.
Lili Bogdanova
was born in 1994 in Sofia. She graduated from the “Lyubomir Pipkov” National
School of Music (Sofia), where she studied piano with Emiliya Kaneva. Currently
she is a student at the “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” National Academy of Music (Sofia)
in the piano class of Prof. Borislava Taneva, PhD. She has participated in numerous
master class given by famous foreign and local musicians. She has
won many prizes from international piano competitions in Bulgaria, Romania,
Cyprus, Morocco, Italy, the Czech Republic and the UK.
She
has been the soloist of many orchestras, such as the New Symphony Orchestra (Sofia), Classic FM Orchestra (Sofia) Sinfonietta – Vidin
(Bulgaria), Sinfonietta – Athens
(Greece), Columbia County Chamber Orchestra and CCYO – Georgia (USA). She has
given solo recitals in Bulgaria, Greece, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Italy, the UK
and the USA.
In
2014, with a concert at the Young Music
Talents Festival in “Bulgaria” Chamber Hall, Lili presented her debut CD – Le Fille aux cheveux de lin – with
pieces by Franck and Debussy. At the beginning of 2015 she was awarded with the
prestigious prize Young Musician of the Year (for 2014), awarded by the Allegro Vivace broadcasting programme of
the Bulgarian National Radio. A couple of months later she was awarded with a scholarship
by the Euro Atlantic Art Foundation
to take part in the International Summer Academy of Music in Ochsenhausen (Germany).
During
the academic year 2015/2016 Lili went on an “Erasmus+” Programme to continue
her education at the “Vincenzo Bellini” Institute of Music in Catania (Italy),
where she studied with Daniele Petralia.