Nadejda Tzanova

Nadejda Tzanova joined the Sofia Philharmonic on 8 May 2022 for the concert marking sixty years of the Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, an anniversary reaching back to the group's founding in 1962. Peter Makedonski was the other soloist. Tzanova began the piano at five and at six entered the class of the Ukrainian teacher Elena Yulianova; at eleven she took first prize in the Bulgarian competition Our Children Play Bach and the Grand Prix the following year. She made her orchestral debut at sixteen with the Kharkiv Symphony Orchestra in Schumann's concerto. From 2005 she studied at the National Music Academy in Sofia with Stela Dimitrova-Maistorova and Ilia Chernaev, taking her master's degree in 2011, then worked with Boyan Vodenicharov at the Royal Conservatory in Brussels and gained the concert diploma of the Schola Cantorum in Paris. First prize at the Flame competition in Paris followed in 2013. Her duo with the trumpeter Peter Makedonski, built around Shostakovich's concerto, was named Musician of the Year in the ensemble category in 2017.