Vivi Vassileva

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Vivi Vassileva (born 1994 in Hof ) is a German musician and percussionist ( marimba , vibraphone , percussion ). She comes from a Bulgarian family of musicians. Her parents were both musicians with the Hof Symphony Orchestra. Her brother Vasko Vasilev is now a violinist and concertmaster at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden .

education

The first impetus for her musical career was the confrontation with the rhythms of a musical group on a beach in Bulgaria . Like her three siblings, Vassileva originally learned to play the violin . She had lessons from her father.

Vivi Vassileva is one of the children portrayed in the documentary film "7 or Why I'm in the World" (2010) by Antje Starost and Hans Helmut Grotjahn.

At the age of 13 she was a member of the Federal Youth Orchestra .

Her first professional CD recording was supported by Bavarian Broadcasting . Vivi Vassileva was funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation (Talent in Bavaria) and the German Music Council . She is a scholarship holder of various foundations and studied at the University of Music and Drama in Munich with Peter Sadlo until his death in July 2016. She completed her bachelor's degree there and then began her master's degree with Raymond Curfs.

Career as a musician

Vivi Vassileva played as a solo paucock with the Mannheim Philharmonic in 2011 during a tour of China and in 2012 with the Bruckner Academy Orchestra in Munich. Solo recitals and solo concerts have taken her to Sofia, Plovdiv and the Apollonia Festival in Sozopol in Bulgaria, the Percussion Festival in Zagan, Poland, Valencia (Spain) and the Samos Young Artist Festival.

In 2015 she founded the Vivi Vasileva Quintet . The ARD culture magazine ttt - titel, thesen, temperamente broadcast a 6-minute portrait of the musician on July 24, 2016.

In 2016 she performed as a soloist with the Bavarian State Youth Orchestra on a tour in the Joseph-Keilberth-Saal Bamberg and the Philharmonie am Gasteig in Munich. In the same year she accompanied the film "Story of a Love - Freya" by Antje Starost and Hans Helmut Grotjahn as a musician (marimba) .

Vivi Vassileva made her orchestral debut in a solo concert with the Hof Symphony Orchestra in Lichtenfeld. In 2017 she founded a duo with Lucas Campara Diniz (guitar) and a duo with Carina Madsius (piano). She performs regularly with both of them. In 2018 she played Tan Duns “The Tears of Nature” at the LivivMozArt Festival in Ukraine under the direction of Oksana Lyniv , performed at the Rheingau Music Festival, the Hohenloher Kultursommer and the European Weeks Festival in Passau. In the same year she played as a soloist with the Hof Symphony Orchestra and the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra. In 2019 she will make her debut in the Berlin Philharmonie with her percussion quartet and will play as a soloist with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra in the Meistersingerhalle. In 2019 she will make her debut in the Berlin Philharmonie with her percussion quartet and will play as a soloist with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra in the Meistersingerhalle . In May she premiered Oriol Cruixent's “Oraculum” percussion concert dedicated to her with the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Julia Jones in the Wuppertal town hall.

Publications

  • CD: World premiere of “Aschenglut” by Klaus Hinrich Stahmer together with the pianist Maruan Sakkas, 2016.
  • CD: Singin` Rythm, on Alpha Classic / Outhere Music, 2019

criticism

Raymond Curfs (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra): “Vivi plays very energetically, has a wide dynamic range in her playing and it is just fun to watch her. The belief she plays with is simply contagious. "

Prices

  • 2007 Jugend musiziert, national competition
  • 2009 bronze medal in the International Marimba Competition, Paris
  • 2010 Marimba competition, Nuremberg
  • 2013 Music Promotion Prize, Ingolstadt
  • 2014 Special Prize U21 and Special Prize of the Mozart Society in the ARD music competition
  • 2016 1st prize for the music prize of the Gasteig cultural area with his own arrangement of a Bulgarian folk song: Kalino Mome
  • 2017 Bavarian Art Prize for Music

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography own website , accessed on June 11, 2016
  2. ↑ English Wikipedia
  3. ^ Statements by Vivi Vassileva in her curriculum vitae, which is available
  4. ↑ Vivi Vassileva at the Andreas Liebrandt artist's office ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 11, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.liebrandt.com
  5. ↑ Vivi Vassileva the master of irregular snipping ( memento of the original from July 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The First, accessed July 24, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ardmediathek.de
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX63mz-EeR8
  7. ^ "Light" - works by Klaus Hinrich Stahmer; Kreuzberg Records kr 10122 (2016).
  8. ↑ Vivi Vassileva at the Andreas Liebrandt artist's office ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 11, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.liebrandt.com
  9. ^ Munich Ticket May 9, 2016 , accessed June 11, 2016
  10. ↑ Concert Info Munich , accessed on June 11, 2016
  11. ^ From the resume sent by the artist
  12. ↑ Bavarian Art Prize 2017; Awards for young musicians. BR Klassik, July 5, 2017, accessed on August 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Vassileva, Vivi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and percussionist
DATE OF BIRTH 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany