Angela Tosheva
Angela Tosheva Tosheva, Ph.D (Bulgarian: Д-р Анжела Тошева Тошева), Born 15 June 1961 in Sofia,
is a Bulgarian freelance pianist, chamber musician, piano and chamber music pedagogue, editor and with Michail Goleminov director of "Orange Factory" psychoacoustic arts and music publishing house, [1]Sofia, Bulgaria.
==Biography==[2] She has graduated from the Sofia Academy of Music in 1984. A milestone in her development was her meeting with Gyorgy Sebok on his summer master classes in Hungary and Switzerland. She has studied also with Ketil Haugsand. In 1991 Angela Tosheva defended her doctoral degree on the subject of "Theory of the interpretation in the chamber music", a work she has worked on for 5 years, while teaching chamber music at the Academy of Music in Sofia as an assistant to prof. Dimitar Kozev.[3] As a performer she has had numerous solo and chamber music concerts in Bulgaria with music ranging from Byrd and Couperin to Ligeti and Adams and with Bulgarian contemporary composers as Lazar Nikolov, Konstantin Iliev, Ivan Spassov, Vassil Kazandjiev, Michail Goleminov, Georgi Arnaoudov, making her one of the most passionate promoters of contemporary music in Bulgaria[4].
- A rare mixture of rigor and flexibility are typical and essential for her performance. Her music is the result of a deep and vibrant 'Slavonic' sound, serving a pure, clear-sighted vision. [5]
Abroad, she has performed in the USA, Canada, Brazil, Portugal, Ireland, Norway, France, Italy, Russia, Turkey. She led an international master class in Bordeaux, France, in 1996. In 1997 she was invited by the Sao Paulo University Music Department to render a seminar on contemporary music and Bela Bartok's works for piano, as well as to perform twelve concerts for contemporary and classical music.[6] As an editor with Michail Goleminov, celebrating the bicentenary of the births of Chopin and Schumann, Orange Factory has released in Bulgarian "Regard Sur Chopin" (Fayard) and "Schumann" (Seuil) by André Boucourechliev (translated by Pavlina Ribarova and Zornitsa Kitinska). The prizes she had received include first prize at the international competition in Salerno 1978, the Usti and Labem Award at the age of 12, first prize at the Bulgarian Liszt-Bartok Competition in 1988. She has been awarded the "Golden Feather" award from Classic FM Sofia radio, 1997, the award of the Polish institute in Sofia for the 2010 Chopin year, 2010, the award of the Bulgarian "Salon of Arts" together with Michail Goleminov for his multimedia installation "Schuman-Oracle" and her concerts promoting Schumann's bicentenary, 2010.
In 2003 she and the composer Michail Goleminov founded The Orange Factory Psychoacoustic Arts, an experimental music and multimedia studio and publishing house in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Angela Tosheva has been living since 2001 as a freelance artist.
Discography:
Solo CDs: "Empire of Light" , music by Gheorghi Arnaoudov; producer: Concord records, CA "Three piano sonatas by Lazar Nikolov"[7]; producer: Labour records, NY "16 keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti"[8]; producer: Orange factory, Sofia "Piano works by Bela Bartok"; producer: Orange factory, Sofia "Etudes by Scriabin, Debussy and Ligeti"; producer: Orange factory "Preludes by Rachmaninoff and piano works by Michail Goleminov"; producer: Orange factory, Sofia "Contemporary Dutch music for piano solo and piano with electronics"; producer: Orange factory, Sofia "Sonograms", XX century piano music; producer: Orange factory, Sofia
Chamber music CDs "Passion" , Kayla Suh (violin), Angela Tosheva (piano) ; producer: Arcadia records
References
- ^ www.orangefactory.net
- ^ http://www.sofiamusicmark.com/frame_roster.asp?pid=13&cid=
- ^ "Domenico Scarlatti, 16 Sonatas" (CD booklet)
- ^ "Scriabine, Debussy, Ligety - Etudes" (CD booklet)
- ^ http://www.sofiamusicmark.com/frame_roster.asp?pid=13&cid=
- ^ "Dutch piano music" (CD booklet)
- ^ http://www.laborrecords.com/lab7035.html
- ^ http://wn.com/Scarlatti_Sonata_G_Angela_Tosheva