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Marina Simeonova Plays Bach, Schumann, Debussy (Site)
Sunday May 28, 2017, 6:00 pm - 11:30 pm
$10 – $20
Gotham Arts is delighted to present a solo piano recital by Marina Simeonova at a private residence on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Please purchase your ticket ASAP to facilitate determining headcount for refreshments.
6 PM Pre-Reception
7 PM PERFORMANCE
8:30 PM Post-Reception
Program
BACH Selections from Six Little Preludes
DEBUSSY Selections from Préludes: Book I
GERSHWIN Three Preludes
SCHUMANN Symphonic Etudes
About Marina Simeonova
Born into a family of journalists, Marina Simeonova began playing the piano at the age of six and graduated from the Lyubomir Pipkov National Music School in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the studio of Dr. Alexander Vassilenko. Ms. Simeonova studied with Dr. Iliya Chernaev in the National Music Academy in Sofia from 2013-2014.
Ms. Simeonova has performed in numerous countries, including Tunisia, Italy, Germany, Canada and Bulgaria, in halls including The Acropolis of Carthage, Koerner Hall, and Bulgaria Hall, among others. She has performed as soloist with the New Symphony Orchestra, the Vratsa Symphony, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, among others, and gave two solo recitals at the Musica sem fronteiras festival in the cities of Porto and Agueda, Portugal in 2014.
In June 2012, Ms. Simeonova received a Diploma for Outstanding Artistic Achievements from the Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria. In 2013, she founded and performed in Little Summer Concerts, a fund-raising festival for young Bulgarian musicians in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. And Ms. Simeonova was a semifinalist in the 2016 edition of the IKIF in New York and a recipient of the Dorothy MacKenzie Scholarship.
Ms. Simeonova was recently on the jury of the 45th edition of the Music Scarborough Festival in Toronto, with the distinction of being the youngest adjudicator in the history of the festival. She has a private piano studio in Toronto, Ontario and is currently a student of Professor John Perry and David Louie in the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music, where she is the recipient of the Matthew Baillie Scholarship in Piano.