Tsvetelina Maldjanska

Born in Vratsa in 1970, Tsvetelina Maldjanska completed her medical studies before turning to singing. She studied with Alexandrina Milcheva and, in 1994, at the Boris Christoff Academy in Rome with Sergio Oliva and Nikola Ghiuselev, making her debut the following year at the Rousse Opera and at the Sofia National Opera. She has sung with most of the principal Bulgarian orchestras and appeared in Italy, Israel, Germany and Brazil, in Mozart, in the Italian repertoire and in the concert literature — the soprano solo in Mahler's Fourth Symphony among the parts she has been called on for. In 2005 she appeared alongside José Carreras in Bulgaria. She speaks six languages. Her competition record includes first prize at the Hristo Brambarov competition for young opera singers in 1995, first prize at the international competition for singers and pianists at Enna in Italy, awards in France, and first prize at the international competition in Albena in 1998. In 1999 she made her debut with the Israel Northern Symphony Orchestra. Maldjanska appeared as a soprano soloist at the Thracia Summer Music Festival in Plovdiv in 1997 and 1999.