Klavierkosmos
Piano Concert of
(Bulgaria/Switzerland)
Featuring
Borislava Taneva
(Piano, Bulgaria)
Zdravka Atanasova
(Marimba, Bulgaria)
Doroteya Dimitrova
(Marimba, Bulgaria)
Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945, Hungary):
Twelve pieces selection from Mikrokosmos
Sz. 107, BB 105 [Volumes I – VI] (1926–39)
Unison
Melodies (I) [Vol. I]
Unison
Melodies (II) [Vol. I]
Reflection [Vol. I]
Imitation
and Inversion [Vol. I]
Free Canon [Vol. I]
Crescendo-Diminuendo [Vol. II]
Sixths and
Triads [Vol. III]
Hommage à
Robert Schumann [Vol. III]
In Folk Song
Style [Vol. IV]
Melody in
the Mist [Vol. IV]
From the
Diary of a Fly [Vol. VI]
Divided
Arpeggios [Vol. VI]
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 – 2007, Germany):
Tierkreis – Twelve Melodies of the Signs of the Zodiac (1974–75) *
Tierkreis – Twelve Melodies of the Signs of the Zodiac (1974–75) *
Aries
Taurus
Gemini
Cancer
Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpio
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Aquarius
Pisces
George Crumb (b. 1929, USA):
Makrokosmos – Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac
Selection from Volume I (1972)
George Crumb (b. 1929, USA):
Makrokosmos – Twelve Fantasy-Pieces after the Zodiac
Selection from Volume I (1972)
The Phantom Gondolier (Scorpio)
Night-Spell I (Sagittarius)
Music of Shadows (for Aeolian Harp) (Libra)
The Magic Circle of Infinity (Moto Perpetuo) [SYMBOL] (Leo)
* * *
Junghae Lee (b. 1964, South Korea/Switzerland):
Mesokosmos
for solo piano (2019) **
[Dedicated to Stefka Perifanova]
Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945, Hungary):
Seven pieces from Mikrokosmos for
two pianos
Sz. 108, BB 120 (1940) [arranged for two pianos by the
author]
Bulgarian Rhythm
Chord and Trill Study
Perpetuum Mobile
Short Canon and Its Inversion
New Hungarian Folk Song
Chromatic Invention
Ostinato
Stefka
Perifanova – piano
Borislava
Taneva – piano
Vladimir
Djambazov (b. 1954, Bulgaria):
MicroStory “Tara Ta-ta!” for two pianos and marimba (2019) **
MiniMicria I for 4 – for two pianos and two marimbas (1999)
MicroStory “Tara Ta-ta!” for two pianos and marimba (2019) **
MiniMicria I for 4 – for two pianos and two marimbas (1999)
Stefka
Perifanova – piano
Borislava
Taneva – piano
Zdravka
Atanasova – marimba (in both pieces)
Doroteya
Dimitrova – marimba (in MiniMicria)
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* Bulgarian premiere
** World premiere
This concert has been made possible
thanks to the generous support of:
thanks to the generous support of:
* * *
The
Bulgarian pianist Stefka Perifanova
graduated from the School of Music in Plovdiv (her hometown) in the class of
Stela Oslekova and Rositsa Ivancheva. Afterwards, she studied at the “Prof.
Pancho Vladigerov” National Academy of Music in Sofia with Prof. Konstantin
Ganev and Prof. Julia Ganeva (pupils of Heinrich Neuhaus) and assisted in their
piano class for four years. In 1993, she received the “Cyrillus and Methodius”
scholarship, which enabled her to study further in Switzerland with Rudolf
Buchbinder (concert class), Gérard Wyss (chamber music and Lieder accompaniment)
and Bruno Canino (soloist's diploma).
Perifanova
has won prizes at numerous competitions, including the Edward Tschumi Prize for
the best soloist's diploma of the year (Bern, 1999) and first prize at the
Concurso Internacional de Música Cidade do Porto (1996). Over and above her
solo appearances, she is much in demand as a chamber musician and Lieder
accompanist on international concert platforms, and performs with partners like
Sol Gabetta, Raphael Oleg, Hansheinz Schneeberger and Györgi Pauk. She is
particularly interested in contemporary music and
has premiered numerous works. She has performed throughout Europe and in Korea,
Colombia and the United States. She has played as soloist with a number of
symphony orchestras, including those of Porto, Würzburg, Plovdiv, Varna, Basel
and Bern, as well as with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra.
In
2003, she became one of the founders of the Swiss Ensemble Absolut Trio and remains a member of it to the present day. The
ensemble consistently pursues the dialogue between the music of today and the
music of the past. Artistic involvement with contemporary music is of prime
importance for the members of the trio, which is why they commission works at
regular intervals – already 15 new piano trios have been composed for them.
Many significant works for piano trio (some with live electronics) are
integrated into highly evocative programmes of the ensemble. The
Absolute Trio has released four CDs
and is the winner of the Zurich Culture Award for 2018.
In
addition, Stefka Perifanova is a member of the soloists’ ensemble Camerata variabile Basel, adjudicates at
piano competitions and often assists at master classes (for János Starker, Igor
Oistrakh, Menahem Pressler, Bernard Greenhouse, among others). She has recorded
for the national radios of Switzerland, Sweden, England, Slovenia, Poland,
Portugal, Germany, France and Bulgaria. Since 1999, she has been teaching
chamber music and piano accompaniment at the Zurich University
of the Arts and, since 2011, at the City of Basel Music Academy.
(© Nora Roth)
Borislava Taneva
is a pianist, composer, pedagogue, chamber musician and organiser of musical
events. Her active participation in the contemporary cultural life in Bulgaria
and abroad defines her as a successful multi-talented musician.
She
has been a laureate of national and international piano, chamber music and
composition competitions in Bulgaria, Italy, Greece, Luxembourg and Japan. She
has given multiple recitals in Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, Italy, Switzerland,
Lithuania, Israel, France, Macedonia, Spain, etc.
Currently,
Borislava Taneva is a professor of piano and pedagogical practice as well as Vice
Rector of Artistic Activity and International Affairs of the “Prof. Pancho
Vladigerov” National Academy of Music in Sofia. Her students have been awarded
with prizes from national and international forums and competitions. She has
given master classes and participated in seminars on various topics at music
colleges and conservatories in Athens, Тhessaloniki, Geneva, Luxembourg,
Madrid, Singapore, Paris, Catania and Brasília. She has appeared as a jury
member in national and international piano competitions in Greece, France, Austria,
Luxembourg and Bulgaria.
In
2014, she was awarded the Golden Pen
award for outstanding contribution to Bulgarian culture and art. In 2015, she
was awarded the Crystal Lyre, and in
2016 the award of the Bulgarian National Radio Musician of the Year for artistic activities.
Borislava
Taneva is the founder and a member of the Swiss-Bulgarian Association of
Culture (SBAC). Since 2016, she is also a Co-President of the ppIANISSIMO Foundation. From 2019, she
is the artistic director of the International Music Mozart Festival in Pravets.
(© Vasil Karkelanov)
Zdravka Atanasova
(b. 1995) started playing percussion instruments at the age of seven in the
class of Dalila Nedelcheva and graduated from the “Dobri Hristov” National
School of Arts in her hometown Varna. She is currently a student at the “Prof.
Pancho Vladigerov” National Academy of Music (NAM, Sofia) in the class of Prof.
Tatyana Karparova, PhD. She has also taken part in the master classes of
Tatiana Koleva, Ass. Prof. Marina Kapitanova and Prof. Emmanuel Séjourn.
She
has participated in various concert programmes and festivals in Bulgaria and
abroad. As a solo performer, she has appeared in a number of competitions,
including Pendim (Plovdiv), Hopes, Talents, Masters (Dobrich),
“Svetoslav Obretenov” (Provadia), Young
Virtuosos – “Dobri Paliev” (Sofia), “Varban Varbanov” (Burgas), M.A.G.I.C. (Burgas), Italy Percussion
Competition (Montesilvano, Pescara) and the academic competition Brass and Percussion Instruments,
dedicated to the 95th anniversary of NMA (Sofia).
In
2012, she received a Diploma from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of
Bulgaria for high creative achievements in the 2011/2012 academic year.
Doroteya Dimitrova (b. 1995) began playing percussion
at the age of ten. From fifth grade, she studied at the National School of Arts
“Prof. Veselin Stoyanov” in Rousse. She graduated from the National School of
Music “Lyubomir Pipkov” (Sofia) in the class of Iskra Palieva, as well as from
the National Academy of Music “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” (NAM, Sofia) with a
Bachelor’s Degree in the class of Prof. Tatyana Karparova, PhD. Currently, she
studies in a master’s programme in the NAM. She has also attended the master
classes of Tatiana Koleva and Markus Leoson.
She has participated in numerous solo and chamber
concerts, as well as in many percussion chamber ensembles. Since 2012, she has
been playing in the Pioneer Youth
Philharmonic (Sofia), with which she has participated in concerts in Sofia, at
the Varna Summer festival and others.
She also works as a guest orchestra player in various orchestras, including the
Academic Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Pazardzhik, Sofia
Philharmonic, New Symphony Orchestra and Sofia
Sinfonietta. In the years 2016–17, she worked as an orchestra player in the
State Opera in Rousse
