Desislava Nikolova

The harpist Desislava Nikolova is heard in Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp in C, K. 299, recorded with the flautist Marcelo Ehrlich and the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra in August 1999 and published by Music Minus One. Nayden Todorov conducted the sessions. Nikolova appeared as a harp soloist at the Thracia Summer Music Festival in Plovdiv in 1999. Born in Plovdiv in 1976, Nikolova sat at the piano from the age of four and took up the harp at fourteen with Zdravka Koleva. She finished the Dobrin Petkov music school in 1994, the year she won first prize at the Young Musical Talents national competition in Sofia, and graduated from the National Academy of Music and Dance in Plovdiv in 1998. She has played as soloist with the Pazardzhik Symphony Orchestra, the Plovdiv Philharmonic and the Academic Symphony Orchestra, and has given recitals of her own.