Bulgarian pianist Plamena Mangova’s career developed after she won top prizes at Paloma O’Shea (Santander) and Queen Elisabeth (Brussels) Competitions. Her teachers include Marina Kapatsinskaya and the legendary pianist Dmitri Bashkirov (Reina Sofia School, Madrid). She is a graduate of the Queen Elisabeth College of Music (Belgium). She has performed in prestigious halls throughout the […]
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Born in Tel Aviv, pianist Itamar Carmeli studied in Jerusalem at the Academy of Music and Dance under Daria Monastyrski, and the New York Mannes School of Music under Pavlina Dokovska. He is currently based in Berlin at the Barenboim-Said Akademie studying with Sir András Schiff. He received scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, and
Elena Bashkirova studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with her father, the celebrated pianist and teacher, Dmitri Bashkirov. She has performed with such orchestras as Munich Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, IPO and Chicago Symphony under conductors including Celibidache, Boulez, Mehta, Dohnányi and Eschenbach. She is an advocate of twentieth-century music and has
Yulianna Avdeeva began studying piano at age five at the Gnessin Music School (Moscow) under Elena Ivanova, and later Vladimir Tropp and Konstantin Scherbakov, Dmitri Bashkirov, William Grant Nabore and Fou Ts’ong. She won prizes at the Bremen, Geneva and Arthur Rubinstein competitions. After winning 1st Prize at the prestigious Chopin Competition (Warsaw 2010) she