Piano concert with Svetoslav Todorov

19:00, Halls of the Bulgarian Embassy

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Join us for a piano concert featuring the young, award-winning pianist, Svetoslav Todorov.

 

Evening Programme:

1. J. S. Bach – Toccata in E minor

2. L. van Beethoven – Variations on a theme by Salieri

3. Isaac Albeniz – El Puerto ( from Iberia )

4. John Adams – American Berserk

5. Nikolai Kapustin – Concert Jazz Etude N6 “Pastorale”

 

About the pianist:

Pianist Svetoslav Todorov is currently studying for a Master of Performance at the Royal College of Music, London, classical piano with Dina Parakhina and jazz with Michael Moran, supported by a Jenny Marsh Chapman Memorial Award and the Bucher/Frazer Scholarship. He was born into a musical family and began his studies at the Dobri Hristov National Music School – Varna and Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Bulgaria. He then went on to the University of Edinburgh studying with Peter Evans and Steven Osborne, where he received a Bachelor of Music with distinction. Whilst there, Svetoslav was the winner of the  Tovey Memorial Prize 2012 for best promising performance, making him the second first-year student ever to win it and one of the only pianists.

Svetoslav has also been a recipient of several other awards including the Edinburgh Award, Edinburgh Festival Competition Concerto Final Winner, and Grand Prix in Moscow. He was selected as one of the top recipients for the 2014 Award for Young Concert Artists. Svetoslav has received coaching from musicians including Dmitry Bashkirov, Natalia Troull, Dmitry Alexeev, Peter Hill, Pascal Nemirovski, Fulvio Turissini, Chantal Stigliani, Rudolf Jungwirth, Victor Chuchkov.

Svetoslav has performed recitals across Europe in venues such as the Gaveau Hall in Paris and Moscow’s Rachmaninov Hall. In February 2014 he was invited to perform for HRH The Princess Royal in the Palace of Holyrood in Edinburgh. Svetoslav made his concerto debut with the Varna and Shumen Philharmonic orchestras in Bulgaria. He has also performed Gershwin’s Concerto in F with the Meadows Chamber Orchestra and the Grieg’s A minor Concerto with the Edinburgh Charity Orchestra.

He was invited to play a series of concerts with the Artisan Trio in Edinburgh, commissioning new pieces, including works by the BBC Proms composer Shiori Usui. They recorded the soundtrack for the Canadian Film Frameworks composed by Nigel Osborne, which later won the 31st International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) Award 2013 and best Canadian Film, Montreal.

Svetoslav recently gave a recital as part of the Edinburgh International Festival 2015 at the Queen’s Hall.