Please join us on Saturday for an evening of solo piano works with
pianist Victoria Tzotzkova, a lecturer in Harvard's Music Department.
Refreshments to follow the recital.
Dudley Arts
presents
"The Piano is a Thousand Instruments"
with
Pianist Victoria Tzotzkova
Dudley House Common Room
Saturday, May 30th, 7pm
PERFORMER'S BIO
Pianist Victoria Tzotzkova has performed widely, as both recitalist
and chamber musician, notably at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall,
Steinway Hall, Miller Theatre, Bechstein Piano Center, the Bulgarian
Consulate General in New York, the Tsai Performance Center in Boston,
Bulgaria Concert Hall in Sofia, Bulgaria, as well as in France,
Germany, Switzerland, and the UK. Among her performance awards are the
Lucy Boyan Balakian Award at Steinway Hall, First Prize at the
Chautauqua Festival Piano Competition, First and Grand Prize at the
MTNA Yamaha Competition, New York. She is a founding member of the Vek
Chamber Ensemble based in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Growing up in Bulgaria, Victoria studied at the National Music School
in Sofia, regularly performing in concert and making several
recordings for the National Television and Radio. She continued her
studies at the Manhattan School of Music with Ms. Rosetta Goodkind.
She has also worked with Alexis Weissenberg, Philippe Entremont,
Philippe Bianconi, Emile Naoumoff, Herre-Jan Stegenga, Jacob Lateiner,
Peter Takács, and Patricia Zander.
Victoria is also a theorist involved in humanistic and cultural
research in music. She completed her PhD in music theory at Columbia
University, with Professor George E. Lewis as her principal advisor.
Her doctoral dissertation, “Theorizing Pianistic Experience:
Tradition, Instrument, Performer,” focuses on sound in piano
performance and foregrounds the improvisatory aspects of a classical
pianist’s work with sound. Her research work has been supported by
grants from the Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative at Harvard University
and the Reid Hall Institute for Scholars in Paris, France, and has
been invited for presentation at Columbia University, Harvard
University, Indiana University, and the Eastman School of Music in the
US, as well as at Cambridge University, Durham University, the Royal
College of Music, London, UK, and in Canada and Germany. She is
currently a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University.
As a performer-theorist, Victoria enjoys keyboard harmony and period
improvisation, which she has pursued in the tradition of Nadia
Boulanger at the European American Musical Alliance, the Naoumoff
Piano Academy, and the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, France.
She also enjoys working with composers and has premiered works by Ori
Talmon and Christopher Jette.
http://www.victoriatzotzkova.com
