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Donka Angatscheva is an Austrian Pianist with Bulgarian descent, living in Vienna.
Born on 01 January 1979 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Biography

At the age of 5 Donka received her first piano lessons, her first public appearance took place at the age of 10 with the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra. She started her studies at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts (MDW) in the class of prestigious pianist and teacher Heinz Medjimorec were she majored in 2004 as master of arts in piano performance.[1]

At the Queen Elizabeth College of Music (la Chapelle Musicale reine Elisabeth- CMRE) she absolved her postgraduate studies in the class of Artemis Quartett as well with Avedis Kouyoumdjian rounding off her skills in chamber music.[2]

Angatscheva played 2011 together with her trio D´Ante at the Radio France Festival Montpellier, at the Chopin Festival Flagey, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and at the Festival Menton, France.

In December 2012 she gave a guest performance with her trio D´Ante at the Tonhalle Zürich.

In June 2013 Donka played the Malediction by Franz Liszt at the Liszt Festival Raiding with the Bayreuther Chamber Orchestra conducted by Nicolaus Richter. In 2014 there was a follow up performance with her trio D´Ante.

Donka speaks six languages fluently (german, bulgarian, english, spanish, greek and serbo-croatian) and lives in Vienna. She is married and has two daugthers.[3][4]

Awards

  • 1989: First prize at the national piano contest „Dimitar Nenov“, Razgrad, Bulgaria.
  • 1990: Second prize (first prize was not awarded) at the 8th International piano contest in Salerno, Italy.
  • 1997: second prize (first prize was not awarded) at the national piano contest at the Academy of Music and Arts, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
  • 2003: First prize at the 13th International Chamber Music Contest in Thessaloniki, Greece together with Daniela Ivanova, violist with the Wiener Philharmoniker.
  • 2007: First prize at the 17th International Chamber Music Contest in Thessaloniki, Greece with her trio D´Ante.
  • 2011: Winner of the „Young Artist Award“ by Foundation Aeschlimann, Switzerland

Discography

Trio D’Ante - Vienna Donka Angatscheva-piano, Valya Dervenska - violin, Teodora Miteva-cello. (Gramola 98873).

Donka Angatscheva -piano Valya Dervenska-violin Teodora Miteva-cello (Gramola 98934).

Yury Revich-violin Donka Angatscheva-piano (Onepoint.fm)

Vogtland Philharmonie, Stefan Fraas-Dirigent, Donka Angatscheva-piano (Ars 38168)[6]

References

  1. ^ "Biography | Donka Angatscheva | Pianist". angatscheva.com. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
  2. ^ "Biography | Donka Angatscheva | Pianist". angatscheva.com. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
  3. ^ "Donka Angatscheva". www.onepoint.fm. Retrieved 2017-10-03.
  4. ^ "Donka Angatschewa: Es lassen sich in jedem Werk immer wieder neue Facetten entlocken". Pizzicato (in French). Retrieved 2017-10-03.
  5. ^ Donka Angatscheva, Las cuatro estaciones porteñas: IV. Invierno porteño, retrieved 2017-10-03
  6. ^ "Fantastic Addinsell, Rota and Piazzolla from Donka Angatschewa". www.pianistmagazine.com. Retrieved 2017-10-03.
  7. ^ "Ihre Suchergebnisse - MediaMarkt". www.mediamarkt.de. Retrieved 2017-10-03.
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