Илиана Тодорова

The pianist Iliana Todorova has divided her working life between the accompanist's stool and the teaching room. She has taught for many years at the New Bulgarian University and the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music, and appears in solo recitals and in chamber programmes with singers and instrumentalists. Todorova appeared as a piano soloist at the Thracia Summer Music Festival in Plovdiv in 2001. Born in Burgas, she studied there with Elena Peeva and in Sofia with Stella Dimitrova-Maystorova and Borislava Taneva. She has played with the Trio di Vienna and recorded in duo with the violinist Kuzmanova and the clarinettist Denitza Laftchieva, as well as Mozart concertos with Bulgarian orchestras under Nayden Todorov and contemporary Bulgarian and Greek music. Her early teachers also included Julia and Konstantin Ganevi.