Morgane Dessislava

In 2025 Morgane Dessislava appeared with the Sofia Philharmonic in Sofia, in concerts whose other soloists were Alexander Slavchev, Atanas Dimitrov, Yana Yancheva and Jivko Stanev. Her background is French and Bulgarian, with a great-grandmother and a grandfather who sang opera in Sofia, and she studied classical piano at the Marietta Alboni Conservatory in Paris and jazz privately with the American pianist Michael Grossman. Musical theatre took her to England, to the Guildford School of Acting and then to the musical theatre course at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, and she danced in Cilla, The Musical at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking. In Paris she has worked as a jazz singer and pianist in houses including the Ritz and Le Bristol.