Dobrinka Tabakova

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Dobrinka Tabakova (Добринка Табакова) (* 1980 in Plovdiv , Bulgaria ) is a British-Bulgarian composer.

Dobrinka Tabakova

Biographical

Dobrinka Tabakova comes from a music-loving academic family. In 1991 she moved with her family to London, where she studied piano , conducting and composition at Alleyn's School and the Royal Academy of Music Junior . She took summer courses at the Center Acanthes in France and the conservatories in Prague and Milan, and received her composition diploma from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In 2007 she received her PhD in composition from King's College London . Her composition teachers include Iannis Xenakis , Alexander Goehr and Philippe Manoury .

Dobrinka Tabakova was composer-in-residence at the Oxford Chamber Music Festival , Leicester International Chamber Music Festival and the Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival . She was invited as a guest composer to the Spectrum Concerts in Berlin and in 2010 to the Musicarama Festival in Hong Kong.

Awards

  • At the age of 14, Dobrinka Tabakova won the Jean-Frederic-Perrenond Prize of the 4th international music competition in Vienna
  • 1999 the GSMD Lutoslawski Composition Prize
  • and in 2007 the Adam Prize of King's College London for the song cycle Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
  • 2017 composer in residence of the BBC Concert Orchestra

Works (selection)

Orchestral works
  • Concerto for Viola and Strings (2004)
  • Schubert's Arpeggione , arranged for viola and string orchestra (2004)
  • Old Style Suite for Viola, Strings and Harpsichord (2004)
  • Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music for soprano and orchestra (2006/7)
  • Concerto for cello and strings (2008)
  • Concerto for viola and strings (2008)
  • Sun Tryptich for solo violin, cello and strings (2007-09)
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra (2010)
  • Fantasy homage to Schubert for string orchestra (2013)
Chamber music
  • Fashion studies for piano (1998)
  • Pirin for viola (2000)
  • Whispered Lullaby for viola and piano (2004)
  • Nocturne for piano solo (2008)
  • Suite in Jazz Style for Viola and Piano (2008)
  • Diptych for organ (2009)
Opera
  • The Custard Tart , chamber opera in 1 act (2003). World premiere on the occasion of Profile Intermedia

Discography (selection)

  • String Paths , ECM Records, 2013
  • Frozen River Flows , ECM Records 2013
  • The English Anthem , Hypericon Records, and others D. Tabakova 2004
  • Dobrinka Tabakova: Kynance Cove, On the South Downs, and Works for Choir, Regent REGCD530, 2019

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ http://www.dobrinka.com/about/index.htm
  2. ↑ BBC Media Center January 3, 2017, accessed April 8, 2017
  3. ↑ BBC music magazine: Volume 15, Issues 7-13 . British Broadcasting Corporation, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Tabakova, Dobrinka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Табакова, Добринка
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Bulgarian modern composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Plovdiv , Bulgaria