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 world including the Salle Pleyel and Theatre Champs Elysées (Paris), Philharmonie (Berlin), Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Madrid’s Auditorio National, Brussels Palace of Fine Arts, London’s South Bank Centre, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Moscow) and Philharmonic (St. Petersburg), and in the USA, Tokyo and Seoul. She has collaborated as soloist with prestigious orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Berlin, 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