Dora Brachkova

Dora Bratschkowa (also: Dora Bratchkova written, Bulgarian Дора Бръчкова ; born August 19, 1957 in Widin ) is a Bulgarian violinist , first concertmaster of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern , professor at the Mannheim University of Music and Primaria of the Rasumowsky Quartet .

Life

After training with Bojan Letschew, she won prizes at the Bach Competition in Leipzig, the Curci Competition in Naples and the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician on concert tours through Europe and Japan . She worked u. a. together with conductors Stanislaw Skrowaczewski , Marcello Viotti , Emmanuel Krivine and their son Boian Videnoff.

Bratschkowa worked as a lecturer at the Music Academy in Sofia, Primaria of the Bulgarian State Sliven Quartet and first concertmaster of the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2003 she was appointed to the violin professorship at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim . She is a juror at international competitions and holds violin and chamber music master classes. Based on the traditions of the Russian string school, as an interpreter and educator, she feels equally connected to historical performance practice and contemporary music.

Her CDs with works by Albert Dietrich , Gade , Kuhlau , Paganini , Rolla , Sinding , Stahmer and Stravinski can be found on the labels cpo , Dynamic and Koch International . A complete recording of all fifteen string quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich was recorded on the Oehms Classics label in the summer of 2006 on the occasion of his 100th birthday .

Web links

• German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
• Mannheim University of Music
• Razumovsky Quartet
• Oehms Classics