Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean

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Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean

Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean ( Bulgarian Анна-Мария Равнополска-Дийн ; born August 3, 1960 in Sofia ) is a Bulgarian harpist , composer and musicologist.

biography

Ravnopolska-Dean studied with the Italian harpist and professor Liana Pasquali and then with the Spanish harpist Nicanor Zabaleta . She continued her education in the USA with Susann McDonald , at Indiana University , Bloomington, where she earned the Artist Diploma . In 1992 she made her debut at New York's Carnegie Hall .

In 1992 she co-founded the American University in Bulgaria . She teaches the harp and piano, and occasionally gives lessons on musicological subjects.

In 2003 she wrote her first composition "Improvisation" in the style of Bulgarian folk music.

Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean with various harps

Publications

Books and articles

  • Modeling orchestration on harp techniques in the works of Wagner, Smetana and Stravinski, “WHC Review”, to be published
  • The Harp in the orchestral works of Bulgarian Composers (1900-1930) "Music yesterday-today", 2002
  • The Harp as a Coloristic Instrument in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, 200 pp., ISBN 954-90353-9-5 , Music Society “Vassil Stefanov”, 2001
  • The Harp as a Coloristic Instrument in the works of Claude Debussy, “Musical Horizons”, vol. 7-8, 2001, 21-25, 27-33.
  • Transcriptions for solo harp, Sofia String Institute, 1995
  • Regular contributor to the World Harp Congress Review, 1981- present
  • Arrangements for solo harp: Granados, Valses Poeticos, Albeniz, Suita Espagnol, 1988

Compositions

  • Improvisation (harp), 2003
  • The Schildkrötens Schloss (harp), September 2003
  • Four Haiku compositions (harp), October 2003
  • Waltz and Berceuse (piano), November 2003
  • Rap Tango (harp), November 2003
  • Suite (8 dances): Lander, Tango, Fandango, Horo, Kazachok, Arabic dance, Pavane. (Harp) April 2004
  • Traviata - Fantasy, (Harp) June 2005
  • Two Haiku compositions (harp), February 2006
  • The Mystical Trumpeter (Walt Whitman) (harp), February 2006
  • Five Haiku compositions - Solo Honkadorae Renga (harp), February 2006

Discography

  • Bulgarian Harp Favorites, CD 2003
  • Legend: French Music for Harp, 1999
  • Harpist at the Opera (honoring the Donizetti bicentennial), CD, 1997
  • Harps of the Americas (Paraguayan and pedal harps), CD, 1996
  • Erich Schubert Pop Harp Festival, 1994
  • A Harpist's Invitation to the Dance, 1992

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Ravnopolska-Dean, Anna-Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Анна-Мария Равнополска-Дийн (Bulgarian); Rawnopolska-Dean, Anna-Maria (alternative transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian harpist, composer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Sofia