Bojidara Kouzmanova

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Bojidara Kouzmanova (* 1977 in Plovdiv , Bulgaria ) is a violinist.

Career

She first attended the National Music School Ljubomir Pipkov in Sofia and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Günter Pichler. By participating in violin courses from Petru Munteanu ( Romania ) in 1994, Vanya Milanova (Bulgaria), Michael Barta ( USA ), José Luis García Asensio ( Spain ) from 1995 to 1999, Alois Kottmann (Germany) from 1999 to 2000 and Vladimir Spivakov ( Russia ) in 2000 she sought active artistic exchange.

Kouzmanova played as a soloist with the Sofia Philharmonic, the State Philharmonic Plovdiv, the Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra Bohemia (Symfonický orchestr Bohemia Praha (SOBP)), the Philharmonic Orchestra Varna, the Philharmonie Bohuslav Martinů, the Kottmann strings, the Vienna Bach soloists, the Vratza Philharmonic, the Vidin State Philharmonic, the Basel Symphony Orchestra and many others.

She has given concerts in Australia, Germany, Greece, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, Taiwan and the USA.

Some composers have composed and dedicated pieces especially for Bojidara Kouzmanova, which she has successfully performed and partly recorded (Roumen Dimitrov, Manuela Kerer, Periklis Liakakis, Julia Purgina, Peter Richter, Thomas Wally and others).

Recordings

Kouzmanova has recorded more than ten different CDs in Bulgaria, Switzerland and the USA, for example the Korngold Violin Concerto, the Double Concerto by Johannes Brahms , the Violin Concerto by Max Bruch , the Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , the Violin Concerto No. 1 by Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofiev , the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi and some CDs of chamber music . Your last recording was made on four master violins; with pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach , Johannes Brahms, César Franck , Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Eugène Ysaÿe .

Awards

  • 1995: 2nd Prize - Music and Earth International Competition, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 1995: 1st prize and special prize - National Competition for Performance of German and Austrian Music, Burgas, Bulgaria
  • 1995: 1st prize - Béla Bartók International Violin Competition, Hungary
  • 1995: 3rd prize and special prize as the youngest participant - "Dobrin Petkov" violin competition
  • 1996: 1st prize - competition "Young musicians", Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 2000: Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist Competition, Great Britain
  • 2000: 3rd Prize - Hudson Valley String Competition (USA) - 3rd Prize
  • 2001: Alois Kottmann Prize during the Internationale Musiktage Hessen Main-Taunus Hofheim , Frankfurt am Main , Hessen , Germany

Audio on demand

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ scenario.ch: Bojidara Kouzmanova ( Memento of July 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 40 kB)
  2. ↑ ensemblelux.de: Bojidara Kouzmanova ( Memento from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Alois Kottmann Prize (German) Source: International Days of Music Hesse Main-Taunus Hofheim
  4. ↑ Picture: The Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main, Petra Roth, hands the Alois Kottmann Award over to Bojidara Kouzmanova
personal data
SURNAME Kouzmanova, Bojidara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Plovdiv , Bulgaria