Vivi Vassileva
Vivi Vassileva, percussions
Vivi Vasileva began her professional years in 2004 with Claudio Estay (soloist-percussionist at the Munich Opera), she entered the world of music with rapid steps and very soon became a laureate of weighty international competitions. At the age of 13, she won First Prize at the famous German Jugend musiziert competition and became the youngest member of the Bundesjugendorchester.
At 15, she released her first CD thanks to Bavarian Radio, and at 16 she was accepted as a student at the College of Music and Theater in Munich, Germany, where she graduated with a BA under Prof. Peter Sadlo and Raymond Kurfs. Vasileva holds a master's degree in "Percussion" (2019-2021) from the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and in "Chamber Music" from the College of Music and Theater in Munich.
Prizes at the international marimba competition in Paris, Nuremberg and Ingolstadt followed. She is the winner of the First Prize in the National Competition for Young Musicians in Germany /2007/, two Special Prizes for Youngest Artist in the ARD Music Competition in Munich, First Prize in the "Kulturpreis den Kulturkreis Gasteig München" Competition /2016/, Prize for promotion of art in Bavaria /2017/. She was named Bavarian Musician of the Year 2017.
In addition to original compositions, Vivi Vasileva performs many new works created especially for her. She improvised all the film music in Petra Wagner's famous film "Zu nah". Plays as a chamber artist in various formations - in a duet with the guitarist Lucas Campara Ginis, with the percussion quartet "Extasy" and with his formation "Vivi Vasileva Quartet".
She was a soloist with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Titus Engel. Together, the musicians she presented the Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra by the Austrian composer Friedrich Cerha. This makes her the second performer of the work after her mentor Martin Grubinger, one of the great names among percussionists in the world.
She performed in Brazil, Spain, Ukraine, Portugal, Algeria, Poland. Vasileva is a soloist at the Rheingau Music Festival, the European Weeks in Passau, the Gasteig Festival in Munich, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. She made her debut in two of the most prestigious halls in Germany - in the great hall of the Elbe Philharmonic in Hamburg and in the great hall of the Berlin Philharmonic. She was a guest at the Bulgarian festivals "Sofia Music Weeks", "March Music Days" in Ruse, "Apolonia" in Sozopol, "Classical Days in Balchik".
In 2022, she received a standing ovation with her emotional performance of a Bulgarian folk song, as part of her brother Vasko Vasilev's concert at Yunak Stadium, and in 2023 she became the first percussionist to receive the Leonard Bernstein Award at the prestigious Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
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