Plamena Mangova (born in

Pleven Pleven ( ) is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria. Located in the northern part of the country, it is the administrative centre of Pleven Province, as well as of the subordinate Pleven municipality. It is the biggest economic center in ...

, Bulgaria, 1980) is a classical pianist. Mangova studied with Marina Kapatsinskaya at the State Music Academy in Sofia. She went on to study with

Dmitri Bashkirov Dmitri Aleksandrovich Bashkirov (; November 1, 1931 – March 7, 2021) was a Russian pianist and academic teacher. Trained in his hometown Tbilisi and Moscow, he began an international career as a soloist when he won the Marguerite Long Piano Co ...

at the

Reina Sofía School of Music The Reina Sofía School of Music (Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Spanish) is a private music school founded in Madrid, Spain, in 1991 by Paloma O'Shea. It belongs to the Albéniz Foundation, and it bears the name of its Honorary Pr ...

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, and with Abdel Rahman El Bacha at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. At 18, she was awarded the XIV Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition's third prize. Nine years later she took part at the XVI

Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition The Queen Elisabeth Competition (, ) is an international competition for career-starting musicians held in Brussels. The competition is named after Queen Elisabeth of Belgium (1876–1965). It is a competition for classical violinists (sinc ...

, where she was second to Anna Vinnitskaya. Mangova has been active as a concert pianist at an international level since 2000, when she debuted at Paris'

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. Her first CD, a

Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Shostak ...

monographic, was awarded a

Diapason d'Or The Diapason d'Or (French for "Golden Tuning Fork") is a recommendation of outstanding (mostly) classical music recordings given by reviewers of '' Diapason'' magazine in France, broadly equivalent to "Editor's Choice", "Disc of the Month" in the ...

. As a chamber musician she has recorded

Sergey Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''. , group=n ( – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who l ...

's complete works for violin and piano, plus Shostakovich's

Piano Quintet In classical music, a piano quintet is a work of chamber music written for piano and four other instruments, most commonly (since 1842) a string quartet (i.e., two violins, viola, and cello). The term also refers to the group of musicians that ...

, featured in the aforementioned recording. Mangova's recording of Beethoven's ''Appassionata'' were used in the third season of the television series '' Fargo''.

References

1980 births Living people Bulgarian women classical pianists Musicians from Pleven Reina Sofía School of Music alumni Prize-winners of the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition Prize-winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition 21st-century Bulgarian classical pianists {{classical-pianist-stub