Bulgarian pianist Plamena Mangova’s career developed after she won top prizes at the Paloma O’Shea (Spain) and Queen Elisabeth (Belgium) Competitions. Her teachers include Marina Kapatsinskaya and Dmitri Bashkirov at the Reina Sofia School in Madrid, and she is a graduate of the Queen Elisabeth College of Music in Brussels. Mangova has performed in prestigious halls throughout the world, including the Salle Pleyel and Theatre Champs Elysées (Paris), Philharmonie (Berlin), Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Auditorio National (Madrid), Palace of Fine Arts (Brussels), South Bank Centre (London), Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow), Philharmonic (St. Petersburg) and in the US, Tokyo and Seoul. She has collaborated as soloist with the Staatskapelle Berlin and Rotterdam Philharmonic, and with conductors and chamber performers such as Maestro Chung, Sir Colin Davis, Walter Weller, Lawrence Foster, Emmanuel Krivine, Maxim Vengerov, Alexander Knyazev, Augustin Dumay, Mihaela Martin, Frans Helmerson, Kolja Blacher, Anton Barachovsky, Gerard Caussé and Pascal Moragues.
Photo by Marco Borggreve