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Vassil Kazandjiev (b. 1934) - Toccata 1957, New England Premiere by Tania Stavreva (Live!) taniastavreva 119 views Performed live at the Boston International Summer Music Festival "Youth & Muse" Faculty Concert Series, Seully Hall, the Boston Conservatory, August 21st, 2008 (New England...
Tim Daoust - "Moon, Tides, Cycles" (2011) for Piano & Live Electronics taniastavreva 152 views "Moon, Tides, Cycles" (2011) for Piano & Live Electronics by Tim Daoust (b.1981) Performed and premiered live at the Metropolitan Room, New York, NY on July 27th, 2011 ...
Scott Wollschleger (b.1980) - "November 29th" (2008) taniastavreva 34 views "November 29th" by Scott Wollschleger (b.1980) Performed and premiered live at the Metropolitan Room, New York, NY on July 27th, 2011 Tania Stavreva, Piano www.tanias...
Scott Wollschleger (b.1980) - Chaos Analog (2007) taniastavreva 147 views Performed by Tania Stavreva on June 22nd, 2011 at Mannes College Auditorium, New York, NY as part of the Institute & Festival for Contemporary Performance (IFCP) concert se...
Scott Wollschleger (b.1980) - "Blue Inscription" 2010 taniastavreva 69 views Performed by Tania Stavreva on June 22nd, 2011 at Mannes College Auditorium, New York, NY as part of the Institute & Festival for Contemporary Performance (IFCP) concert se...
Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1 ( On the image: body paint by Danny Setiawan) taniastavreva 490 views Performed live at Andrea Clearfield's Music Salon in Philadelphia, PA on February 27th, 2011 Pianist & Model: Tania Stavreva: www.taniastavreva.com www.myspace.com/tania...
Tania Stavreva plays Prokofiev - "Suggestion Diabolique" Op.4, No.4 taniastavreva 337 views Performed at Steinway Hall - West Hollywood, CA on February 19th, 2011 www.taniastavreva.com www.myspace.com/taniastavreva www.twitter.com/taniastavreva http://www.fa...
Tania Stavreva plays Ruvido Ed Ostinato from Sonata No.1, Op.22 by Ginastera taniastavreva 217 views Performed at Steinway Hall - West Hollywood, CA on February 19th, 2011 www.taniastavreva.com www.myspace.com/taniastavreva www.twitter.com/taniastavreva http://www.fa...
Sergei Prokofiev - "Suggestion Diabolique" Op.4, No.4 taniastavreva 805 views Performed at the Lily Pad, Cambridge, MA, May 27th, 2010 ...My friend Vitaliy made me laugh so much at the end :) lol www.taniastavreva.com
Samuel Barber - Fuga from Piano Sonata Op.26 taniastavreva 738 views Performed at the Lily Pad, Cambridge, MA, May 27th, 2010 www.taniastavreva.com www.myspace.com/taniastavreva

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Described by the New York critics as "exceptional", "magnificent", "bold" and "dynamic", Bulgarian pianist Tania Stavreva made her New York Recital Debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in April 2009, as part of the Artists International's 36 Special Presentation Winners Series.

This season, Tania Stavreva appeared at major venues including Clive Davis Theater at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Williams and Brown Halls in Boston, Kosciuszko Foundation Auditorium, Lincoln Center's Paul Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Yamaha Artists Services Piano Salon, Steinway Hall, Tenri Cultural Institute, Roulette, the Bulgarian Consulate General and the CSV Cultural Center in New York where she was featured on NY1 News by NBC reporter Asa Aarons. Recent recital performances include appearances at Cape Cod's "Great Concerts on Sundays@5", Goethe Institute-Boston, Boston Public Library, Boston Symphony's Higginson Hall, Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University, Steinway Hall in California, National Ethnographic Museum-Plovdiv, Bulgaria and "Sala dei Notari" Perugia, Italy. In August 2007, Tania appeared as soloist with Sinfonia Perugina, conductor Maestro Enrico Marconi at Cathedral San Lorenzo Perugia. Other orchestral experiences include performances with the Boston Conservatory Symphony Orchestra at Sanders Theater, Harvard University under the baton of Maestro Bruce Hangen. Invited by Amanda Palmer from the internationally-acclaimed band The Dresden Dolls, Tania is one of the first pianists of her generation to perform modern classical music at such rock club venues as the Webster Hall in New York and the Paradise Rock Club in Boston.

In addition to her recent award from the Artists International Auditions in New York, Tania was awarded the "Sarkis Baltaian" Award in recognition of her "outstanding artistic achievements and high concert activity during the 2002-2003 concert seasons". She was also the winner of numerous piano competitions among which are the 2010 Bradshow & Buono International Piano Competition in New York, National "Franz Schubert" Piano Competition 2001 in Russe, Bulgaria and the "Dobrin Petkov" Young Pianists Competition -Plovdiv, 1996 where she also received the "special prize for best virtuoso performance". In 1997, the Mayor of Haskovo, Bulgaria, Atans Vasilev, awarded Tania the Medal "Nedialka Simeonova" for "enriching the musical art and culture in our town Haskovo." She was featured on a live national TV and radio broadcast performing solo piano works by the acclaimed Bulgarian composer Alexander Tanev.

Tania Stavreva appeared in numerous music festivals among which are the International Keyboard Institute & Festival in New York, Institute & Festival for Contemporary Performance (IFCP), New York, New England Conservatory's Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance, Pianofest in the Hamptons, Music Fest Perugia in Italy, XXXIII Musical Days "Nedialka Simeonova", and the Varna Summer International Music Festival in Bulgaria. She has worked with a multitude of renowned musicians including Arie Vardi, Jerome Lowenthal, Martin Canin, Daniel Pollack, David Dubal, John Perry, William-Grant Nabore, Paul Schenly, Jerome Rose, Stephen Drury, Luiz de Moura Castro, Boris Bloch, Frank Levy, Steven Mayer, Oxana Yablonskaya, HaeSun Paik, Anton Dikov.

Born in Bulgaria, Tania Stavreva started to play the piano at the age of four and gave her first solo recital at the age of five in her native country of Bulgaria. She graduated from National Music School "Dobrin Petkov" in Plovdiv as a Piano Performance Major in May 2003 with high distinction in both academics and performance. Her early teachers included Greta Anastasova, Rositsa Ivancheva and Krassimir Gatev. She earned her Bachelor of Music Degree from the Boston Conservatory where she was a full scholarship student of Michael Lewin. While at the Conservatory, she distinguished herself by winning the Chamber Music Honors Competition in 2005, the Alfred Lee Piano Scholarship Competition in 2006 and the Piano Honors Competition in 2007. A member of the National Music Honor Society Pi Kappa Lambda, Tania is a faculty of the Boston International Summer Music Festival "Youth and Muse." She is also on the piano faculty of the Long Island City Academy of Music in New York.

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The Boston Conservatory, USA; National Music School "Dobrin Petkov", Plovdiv, Bulgaria

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