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Maria Martinova
Maria Martinova, klavir
Born in Varna, Maria Martinova started playing the piano, inspired by the rich a legacy of musicians in her family. From the beginning it becomes part of a big one pianistic tradition, first as a student of the famous Bulgarian pedagogue Maria Gineva (herself a student of the emblematic Russian pianist and pedagogue Mikhail Voskresensky). Maria continues her studies at the National Music School in Varna, which ended with the highest distinction, before being admitted to the Bulgarian University National Academy of Music in the class of Stella Dimitrova - student of the followers of the legendary pianist and pedagogue Heinrich Neuhaus - Julia and Konstantin Ganevi. After only two years, her studies there were interrupted by an invitation from the Juilliard School in New York, where she was accepted as a laureate of the prestigious Vladimir Horowitz Scholarship. At Juilliard she studied piano with Joheved Kaplinsky and Joseph Kalichstein and chamber music with Felix Gallimir, Albert Fuller and Samuel Sanders. Maria has a bachelor’s degree in Music from Juilliard and master’s degree in Music from the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied under Haymish Milne. She receives the Foundation's awards and Leverhulme and was invited to teach on behalf of the Royal Academy of Music.
Maria specialized in the Rotterdam Conservatory, awarded Cum Laude. She taught at the Rotterdam Conservatory as an assistant to Achilles Del Vigne and was selected as a guest lecturer professor of piano and chamber music at the International School of Music institute of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She was invited by Bulgaria National Academy of Music to conduct master classes, as well as from the National Music School in Varna.
Maria has worked with legendary pianist Alexis Weissenberg as well as Alexander Toradze and received artistic guidance from prominent pianists and teachers Maria Curcio, Peter Feuchtwanger, Germaine Mounier, John O'Connor, Stephen Hugh, Angela Hewitt, Peter Donohoe, Alexander Satz, Klaus-Christian Schuster, and Lev Winokur.
Her numerous awards include First Prize and Special Prize of "Svetoslav Obretenov" National Competition, First Prize of the International Competition for piano "Marsala", First Prize and Presto Music House Special Prize of The International Competition for Instrumentalists "Earth and People", "Extraordinary absolute award" and a Special Award named after Dimitar Nenov from the National Competition "Dimitar Nenov", First prize of the Competition for the best performance of a work by a Czech or Slovak composer, First Prize of the National Chamber Competition ensembles "Golden Diana", the "Lillian Davis" award for the best performance of the sonata of Beethoven from the Royal Academy of Music and First Prize in the Master Class of piano by Alexis Weissenberg.
As a truly versatile performer - in recital, as a soloist with an orchestra or as a passionate chamber musician – Maria's engagements have led her to such prestigious halls such as Jahrhundert Halle, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, De Doelen, Flagey, Bozar, De Roma, the Barbican, St. Martin-in-the Fields, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall, Wiener Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall. Her performances were broadcast on Bulgarian, Polish, the Dutch, Belgian radio networks, the BBC and on the New York radio station for classical music WXQR, as well as repeatedly on the Bulgarian National Television. Maria has participated in numerous festivals, including Gergiev Festival, Ruhr Piano Festival, Mozarteum, Stresa International Music Festival, London Bach Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Cambridge Summer Music Festival, Varna Summer International Music Festival, March Music Days, FOCUS!
Contemporary Music Festival, International Contemporary Piano Music Festival ppIANISSIMO, IMS Prussia Cove, Barbican-Blaise, Riom Piano Festival, Summer Mozan Festival, European Music Festival, Sofia Music Weeks, Menindrea Kefisia International Music Festival.
In the last few years, Maria has established herself as one of the most discussed names on the international contemporary tango scene as founder and artist leader of the TANGUARDA ensemble. Among the many musicians with whom she has collaborated are some of the brightest figures of the music scene today - Robbie Lakatosh, Marcelo Nisinman, Juanjo Mossalini, Daniel Rowland, Rafal Zambrzycki - Payne (Ensemble Modern), Igor Semyonov (Ictus), David Núñez (soloist of Musiques Nouvelles), Matthew Midgley (solo double bass of the Rotterdam Philharmonic), Winfried Holzenkamp, Denis Buryakov (solo flutist of the Philharmonic of Los Angeles), Rodney Clark, Jacob Kulberg, Romana Gumar, Juan Esteban Quachi. Maria's love for theater and dance led her to create many multidisciplinary projects. She collaborated with the legendary British theater and film actor Sir John Standing, the star of the Belgian theater Pietro Pizzuti, as well as with Julian Vergov, Teodora Duchovnikova, Emmanuelle De Candido, Celine Ruiz, Damian Rosenthal and Jeremy Brebar.
Since 2013, Maria has been in close cooperation with one of the most emblematic Bulgarian composers Lubomir Denev, who wrote and dedicated his Rhapsody for piano to her and Sofia Nights Orchestra. Along with the world premiere of this work, she also gave several international premieres of solo piano pieces by the composer. Maria's recording for the soundtrack of the film by the famous French director Philippe de Broca "Vipère au Poing" is released by Virgin EMI Records. Her recording Solitudes: Baltic Reflections' featuring the eclectic ensemble Mr McFalls Chamber is released by Delphian Records (Recording Company of the Year, Gramophone Classical Music Awards'2014), hailed by Gramophone and Art Desk, as well as a Five Star Magazine Editor's Choice Classical Music. Her recording "Paris-Buenos Aires, une histoire d'amour" with the violinist Cyril Garac, was released by the American record label LP Classics. As a soloist of The Symphony Orchestra of the BNR, she participated in one of the last editions of the BNR - the recording "Sympho-jazz" - glorifying the work of the composer Lubomir Denev.
The new solo Maria's album “Nuit et Jour” with works by Debussy, Ravel and contemporary Swiss composer Gregorio Zanon is released by the English record label Rubicon C.
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