Biography
LONG BIOGRAPHY:
Twenty-five years old Bulgarian pianist Tania Stavreva made her New York Recital Debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in April 2009, as part of the Artists International’s 36 Special Presentation Winners Series.
This season, Tania Stavreva appeared at major venues including Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Williams, Brown and Seully Halls in Boston, Lincoln Center’s Paul Hall, Steinway Hall, Yamaha Artists Services Piano Salon in New York, Boston Symphony’s Higginson Hall and United University Church in Los Angeles. Invited by Amanda Palmer from the internationally-acclaimed band The Dresden Dolls, Tania is one of the first pianists of her generation to perform modern classical music at such top rock club venues as the Webster Hall in New York and the Paradise Rock Club in Boston.
Recent recital performances include appearances at Steinert Hall, Boston Public Library, Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University, Goethe Institute-Boston, National Ethnographic Museum-Plovdiv, Bulgaria and “Sala dei Notari” Perugia, Italy. In August 2007, Tania appeared as soloist with Sinfonia Perugina, conductor Maestro Enrico Marconi at Cathedral San Lorenzo Perugia. Other orchestral experiences include performances with the Boston Conservatory Symphony Orchestra at Sanders Theater, Harvard University under the baton of Maestro Bruce Hangen.
In addition to her recent award from the Artists International Auditions in New York, Tania was awarded the "Sarkis Baltaian" Award in recognition of her "outstanding artistic achievements and high concert activity during the 2002-2003 concert seasons". She was also the winner of numerous piano competitions among which are the National "Franz Schubert" Piano Competition in Russe, 2001 and the "Dobrin Petkov" Young Pianists Competition-Plovdiv, 1996 where she also received the "special prize for best virtuoso performance". In 1997, the Mayor of Haskovo, Bulgaria, Atans Vasilev, awarded Tania the Medal "Nedialka Simeonova" for "enriching the musical art and culture in our town Haskovo." She was featured on a live national TV and radio broadcast performing solo piano works by the acclaimed Bulgarian composer Alexander Tanev.
Tania Stavreva appeared in numerous music festivals among which are the International Keyboard Institute & Festival in New York, New England Conservatory's Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance, Pianofest in the Hamptons, Music Fest Perugia in Italy, XXXIII Musical Days "Nedialka Simeonova", and the Varna Summer International Music Festival in Bulgaria. She has worked with a multitude of renowned musicians including Arie Vardi, Jerome Lowenthal, Daniel Pollack, Martin Canin, David Dubal, John Perry, Jerome Rose, Stephen Drury, Luiz de Moura Castro, Paul Schenly, Frank Levy, Boris Bloch, Oxana Yablonskaya, Eteri Andjaparidze, HaeSun Paik, Anton Dikov.
Born in Bulgaria, Tania Stavreva started to play the piano at the age of four and gave her first solo recital at the age of five in her native country of Bulgaria. She graduated from National Music School "Dobrin Petkov" in Plovdiv as a Piano Performance Major in May 2003 with high distinction in both academics and performance. Her early teachers included Greta Anastasova, Rositsa Ivancheva and Krassimir Gatev. She earned her Bachelor of Music Degree from the Boston Conservatory where she was a full scholarship student of Michael Lewin. While at the Conservatory, she distinguished herself by winning the Chamber Music Honors Competition in 2005, the Alfred Lee Piano Scholarship Competition in 2006 and the Piano Honors Competition in 2007. A member of the National Music Honor Society Pi Kappa Lambda, Tania is a visiting piano faculty at the Page Music Lesson Center in Boston, and a faculty of the Boston International Summer Music Festival "Youth and Muse." She recently joined also the piano faculty of the Piano School of New York City.
SHORT BIOGRAPHY:
Bulgarian-born pianist Tania Stavreva has established herself as a gifted young artist in the standard repertoire, as well as a specialist in 20th- and 21st-century works. Ms. Stavreva is a graduate of the "Dobrin Petkov" Music School in Bulgaria, where she studied with renowned pedagogue Rositsa Ivancheva. She went on to earn her Bachelor's Degree from Boston Conservatory, where she was a student of Michael Lewin and the winner of the 2005 Chamber Music Honors Competition, the 2006 Lee Piano Scholarship and the 2007 Piano Honors Competition. She has performed at such venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Steinway and Steinert Halls, Paul Hall at Lincoln Center, Yamaha Artist Services Piano Salon in New York, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Williams and Brown Halls in Boston, Boston Public Library, National Ethnographic Museum in Bulgaria, and Cathedral San Lorenzo in Perugia, Italy. She is one of the first pianists of her generation to perform modern classical music at such rock venues as Webster Hall in New York and Paradise Rock Club in Boston. Ms. Stavreva has appeared with the Boston Conservatory Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia Perugina under conductors Bruce Hangen and Enrico Marconi. She is a regular participant at numerous summer festivals, including the International Keyboard Institute & Festival in New York, New England Conservatory’s Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance, Pianofest in the Hamptons, Music Fest Perugia and Varna Summer International Music Festival in Bulgaria. In April 2009, Ms. Stavreva performed her Carnegie Hall debut as the winner of the Artists International Presentations Winners Series.
Instrumentation
Tania: Acoustic Piano
Discography
Links
| http://www.myspace.com/taniastavreva |
| www.YouTube.com/TaniaStavreva |
| Follow me on Twitter |
| Kirshbaum Demler & Associates |
| Boston Musicians Association |