Donka Angatscheva

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Donka Angatscheva
Born (1979-01-01) January 1, 1979 (age 45)
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Origin Austria
GenresClassical
Instrument(s) Piano

Donka Angatscheva (born 1 January 1979, Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is an Austrian pianist of Bulgarian descent. She lives in Vienna.

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Early life

At age 5 Angatscheva received her first piano lessons. Her first public appearance came at age 10 with the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra. She started her studies at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts (MDW) in the class of Heinz Medjimorec where she earned a master of arts in piano performance in 2004. [1]

At the Queen Elizabeth College of Music (la Chapelle Musicale reine Elisabeth- CMRE) she completed her postgraduate studies in the class of the Artemis Quartet and with Avedis Kouyoumdjian., [2]

Career

Angatscheva played in 2011 together with her trio D´Ante at the Radio France Festival Montpellier, at the Chopin Festival Flagey, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and at the Festival Menton, France.

In December 2012 she gave a guest performance with D´Ante at the Tonhalle Zürich.

In June 2013 she played the Malediction by Franz Liszt at the Liszt Festival Raiding with the Bayreuther Chamber Orchestra conducted by Nicolaus Richter. A follow-up performance with D´Ante came In 2014.

Personal life

Angatscheva is fluent in German, Bulgarian, English, Spanish, Greek and Serbo-Croatian. She is married and has two daughters. [3] [4]

Awards

Discography

Trio D’Ante - Donka Angatscheva-piano, Valya Dervenska - violin, Teodora Miteva-cello

Donka Angatscheva -pia o Valya Dervenska-violin Teodora Miteva-cello (Gramola 98934).

Yury Revich-violin Donka Angatscheva-piano (Onepoint.fm)

Vogtland Philharmonie, Stefan Fraas-Dirigent, Donka Angatscheva-piano

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