Angela Tosheva Tosheva, Ph.D (Bulgarian: Д-р Анжела Тошева Тошева; born 15 June 1961 in

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), is a Bulgarian freelance

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, piano and chamber music

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, editor and with

Michail Goleminov Michail Marinov Goleminov () (2 June 1956 – 26 February 2022) was a Bulgarian pianist, conductor and composer. Life and career Goleminov was born in Bulgaria, and was the son of composer Marin Goleminov. He studied composition with Dimitar ...

director of Orange Factory psychoacoustic arts and music publishing house,

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Biography

She graduated from the Sofia Academy of Music in 1984. A milestone in her development was meeting Gyorgy Sebok on his summer master classes in

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and

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. She has also studied with

Ketil Haugsand Ketil Are Haugsand (born 13 June 1947) is a Norwegian harpsichordist and conductor. He was born in Oslo. Biography Haugsand started his musical studies in Trondheim and Oslo, and later studied in Prague and Haarlem. In 1973, he earned his solo ...

Ph.D

In 1991, Tosheva defended her doctoral degree on "The Theory of interpretation in chamber music", on which she worked for five years, while teaching chamber music at the Academy of Music in Sofia as an assistant to Prof. Dimitar Kozev.

As a performer

As a performer she has had numerous solo and chamber music concerts in Bulgaria, with music ranging from

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and

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to Ligeti and

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and with Bulgarian contemporary composers such as

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, Konstantin Iliev, Ivan Spassov, Vassil Kazandjiev,

, Georgi Arnaoudov, making her one of the most passionate promoters of contemporary music in Bulgaria. :"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." 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 São Paulo University Music Department to render a seminar on contemporary music and Béla Bartók's works for piano, as well as to perform twelve concerts for contemporary and classical music."Dutch piano music" (CD booklet)

As an editor

As an editor with Michail Goleminov, celebrating the bicentenary of the births of Chopin and

Schumann Robert Schumann (; ; 8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic music, Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber ...

, Orange Factory has released in Bulgarian ''Regard Sur Chopin'', ed. Fayard
''Поглед към Шопен''
ed. Orange Factory) and ''Schumann'', ed. Seuil (
Шуман
', ed. Orange Factory) by

André Boucourechliev André Boucourechliev (28 July 1925 – 13 November 1997) was a French composer of Bulgarian origin. Born in Sofia, Boucourechliev studied piano at the Conservatory there. Subsequently, he studied in Paris at the École Normale de Musique de Pari ...

(translated in Bulgarian by Pavlina Ribarova and Zornitsa Kitinska).

Prizes

Prizes she has 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-Bartók 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.

Orange Factory

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.

Freelance artist

Angela Tosheva has been living since 2001 as a freelance artist.

Discography

Notes

References

angelatosheva.com

www.orangefactory.net
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