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Biography

MAGDALENA KALTCHEVA

20:00 25 June 2010. Balatonfüred

MAGDALENA KALTCHEVA was born in July 1987 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
After initially taking private lessons with S. Vladimirov in Sofia, she began to study with Csaba Szekely in Aachen. From 2000 until 2004 she was a student at the Special high school of Music “Schloß Belvedere” in Weimar, Germany. In October 2004 she was accepted to study with Prof. Jürgen Rost at the “Franz Liszt” University of Music in Weimar. She graduated successfully and received her Diploma in July 2009. Now she is in a Master degree studies at the University for Music in Cologne with Prof. Hubert Käppel.

Since 2000 she has participated in a number of different master classes with Manuel Barrueco, Pepe Romero, Aniello Desiderio, David Russell, Odair Assad, Hubert Käppel, Thomas Müller-Pering, Zoran Dukic, Costas Cotsiolis, Roland Dyens, Dale Kavangh, Carlo Marchione, among others. In addition to a number of Concerts, TV- and Radio recordings (for one example, she played the “Concerto de Aranjuez” with the broadcast orchestra of Munich, which was introduced live at Radio Bayern 4 Classic), can chalk up as well impressive success at International Competitions.

For her musical accomplishments she has received a master Guitar from the “Soroptimist International Club” and a scholarship from the “Freundeskreis zur Förderung der Bochumer Symphoniker“. Magdalena has been promoted as well by the LIONS-CLUB KÖLN-COLONIA scholarship for high talented students of the University for Music Cologne, in October 2009. In the Year 2006 she has recorded her first CD “Sonatas” with “NCA - New Classical Adventure” Hamburg. The selection of works performed on this CD from Scarlatti, Mertz, Paganini, Brouwer and Dyens contain a variety that afford a technical musical ability of the highest level and at the same time a gentle feel of sound and musical sensitivity.

web: www.magdalenakaltcheva.com

MAGDALENA KALTCHEVA