Zhana Kostova

From 2000 until 2012 Zhana Kostova sang as a soloist of the Children's Radio Choir of Bulgarian National Radio, travelling with it to Italy, Switzerland, Spain, China and Japan. Born in Sofia in 1993, she entered the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in 2012 to study classical singing with Mila Dyulgerova. Pamina in a Musical Theatre staging of The Magic Flute came in May 2015, and the Sofia Philharmonic's young talents concert at Bulgaria Hall a month after that; second prizes at the Franz Schubert competition in Rousse in November 2015 and at the Prof. Ilia Yosifov academic competition in April 2016 came within the same span. She has since sung with State Opera Varna, in its Christmas and festive programmes and in The Magical World of the Operetta. Her general schooling was at the 22nd Georgi Rakovski School in Sofia.