THE CHILDREN OF OLD ZAGORA ON THE STAGES OF EUROPE

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"THE CHILDREN OF OLD ZAGORA ON THE STAGES OF EUROPE"

State Opera Stara Zagora will launch on 24 November at 19.00 on the stage of the Opera its new rubric "The children of Stara Zagora on the stages of Europe". In a series of concerts will be presented the young talents born in the "City of Lime Trees", who have already won international competitions and successful performances on international music stages. The first participant in the series "The Children of Stara Zagora on the Stages of Europe" is the young violinist-violin graduate Valerie Draganova, who together with the Stara Zagora Opera Orchestra will be a soloist in the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 4 in D major by Mozart. The concert evening will feature another Mozart work - his overture to the opera "Idomeneo", and in the second part of the concert Schubert fans will be able to enjoy Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished". The Italian conductor Pierre Calabria will stand at the conductor's podium.

VALERI DRAGANOVA was born in 1991 in the town of. She was born in 1991 in Stara Zagora in a family of musicians. Soon after, she moved with her parents to Sofia, where she started singing in the children's choir of the Bulgarian National Radio.
From the age of 6 he played piano and cello, and two years later he began studying violin at the National Music School "Lyubomir Pipkov" - Sofia with teacher Blagorodna Taneva. In 2007 she was accepted to study at the New Bulgarian University as a young student in the class of Prof. Mincho Minchev, who helped her musical growth. In 2010 she finished her secondary music education in Sofia and moved to Vienna to continue her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in the violin class of prof. He studied violin with Gerald Schubert.
In 2014 she won the Vienna Philharmonic's Angelika Prokop Academy, which gave her the opportunity to participate in the Salzburg Summer Festival, where she played chamber music and performed in the Vienna Philharmonic's opera performances. The same year she also participated in the Lokenhaus Chamber Music Festival, where she played with Nicholas Altstadt, Quatuor Ebene, Wilde Frang, Lisa Frettschmann and others.

Since 2015, he has been a young intendant in Adam Fischer's Austro-Hungarian Chamber Orchestra , which has given numerous concerts in Europe and Latin America. In the meantime he has participated in the master classes of prof. Sunny Lee, prof. Stefan Kamilarov, prof. Michael Frischenschlager , prof. Dominik Falger , prof. Andreas Janke, Mila Georgieva and others.
She was awarded first prize at the Competition for German and Austrian Music - Burgas and second prize at the Todor Toshkov Competition - Belgrade.
She has given solo concerts with the Pazardzhik Philharmonic Orchestra and a chamber concert at Radio Bratislava.

In 2016 he graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Vienna.