Гиргина Гиргинова

Girginova came out of the Children's Radio Choir of Bulgarian National Radio, singing both in the chorus and as a soloist, and took her diploma at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in 2004 in the class of Mila Dyulgerova, working afterwards with Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Raina Kabaivanska and Darina Takova. Her stage debut came in 2003, in Menotti's The Telephone. Between 2007 and 2018 she was a soloist of the State Opera Rousse, appearing in more than twenty roles, and since 2009 she has sung regularly with the Bach Society in Bulgaria in the soprano parts of Bach and Handel. She took first prize at the international Euterpe Rose competition and prizes at the Ghena Dimitrova competition. She teaches at the National Academy of Music in Sofia and writes on Verdi's Falstaff. The children's choir took her on tour in Europe, the United States and Japan. Her masterclasses fell in 2003 with Nadezhda Kniplova, 2006 with Tomowa-Sintow and from 2010 with Kabaivanska and Takova, the last of them in 2017 and 2018, and her prizes include the Lyubomir Pipkov academic competition in 2004, the Gena Dimitrova in Pleven in 2006 and the Parashkev Hadzhiev in 2013, the year she also took first prize and the award of the Handel Society in Bulgaria at the Euterpe Rose in Karlovo.