Yana Dukanova

Yana Dukanova, a violinist, played with the Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra at its concert of 27 October 2006, an evening she shared with Emil Sheytanov. Born in Rousse in 1980, she studied at the Prof. Veselin Stoyanov School of Arts there with Anelia Popova, at the Pancho Vladigerov State Academy of Music in Sofia with Boyan Danilov, and at the Hochschule fuer Musik Koeln with Emilian Piedicuta; in 2011, with her colleagues of Trio Kalia, she completed a chamber-music course at the Essen music academy in the class of Andreas Reiner, with special distinction. Prizes at the Svetoslav Obretenov, Dobrin Petkov, Nadezhdi and Talanti competitions preceded solo appearances with the Plovdiv and Shumen philharmonics, the Wuppertal academic symphony orchestra and the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein, which she also led as concertmaster. She has played in the Duesseldorf, Aachen and Moenchengladbach orchestras and, from 2011, in the National Orchestra of Belgium, and has recorded for Bulgarian radio and television and for Music Minus One.