Biography

She has graduated from the Sofia Academy of Music in 1984. A milestone in her development was her meeting with Gyorgy Sebok

Gyorgy Sebok

György Sebők was an internationally renowned pianist and Distinguished Professor at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington USA....

 on his summer master classes in Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 and Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

. She has studied also with Ketil Haugsand

Ketil Haugsand

Ketil Haugsand is a Norwegian harpsichordist and conductor.He started his musical studies in Trondheim and Oslo, and later studied in Prague and Haarlem...

.

Ph.D

In 1991 Angela Tosheva defended her doctoral degree on the subject of "Theory of the interpretation in the chamber music", a work she has worked on for 5 years, while teaching chamber music at the Academy of Music in Sofia as an assistant to prof. Dimitar Kozev.

As a performer

As a performer she has had numerous solo and chamber music concerts in Bulgaria with music ranging from William Byrd

William Byrd

William Byrd was an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard and consort music.-Provenance:Knowledge of Byrd's biography expanded in the late 20th century, thanks largely...

 and Couperin

Couperin

The Couperin family were a musical dynasty of professional composers and performers. They were the most prolific family in French musical history, active during the Baroque era...

 to Ligeti

Ligeti

Ligeti is a Hungarian surname. Notable persons with the surname include:* András Ligeti , Hungarian violinist and conductor* Eva Ligeti, Canadian lawyer and the first Environmental Commissioner of Ontario...

 and Adams and with Bulgarian contemporary composers as Lazar Nikolov, Konstantin Iliev, Ivan Spassov, Vassil Kazandjiev

Vassil Kazandjiev

Vassil Kazandjiev is a Bulgarian composer of orchestral, chamber, vocal, film and piano music. His work is representative of the 20th century classical music and 21st century classical music....

, Michail Goleminov

Michail Goleminov

Michail Goleminov is a Bulgarian composer, pianist and conductor.He studied music in Sofia, Amsterdam and Vienna - orchestra conducting and twelve tone composition with Konstantin Ilijev of the Academy of Music in Sofia, composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati of the Academy of Music in Vienna,...

, Georgi Arnaoudov, making her one of the most passionate promoters of contemporary music in Bulgaria.

"A rare mixture of rigor and flexibility are typical and essential for her performance. Her music is the result of a deep and vibrant 'Slavonic' sound, serving a pure, clear-sighted vision."

Abroad, she has performed in the USA, Canada, Brazil, Portugal, Ireland, Norway, France, Italy, Russia, Turkey. She led an international master class in Bordeaux, France, in 1996. In 1997 she was invited by the Sao Paulo University Music Department to render a seminar on contemporary music and Bela Bartok's works for piano, as well as to perform twelve concerts for contemporary and classical music.

As an editor

As an editor with Michail Goleminov, celebrating the bicentenary of the births of Chopin and Schumann

Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....

, Orange Factory has released in Bulgarian "Regard Sur Chopin", ed. Fayard ("Поглед към Шопен", ed. Orange factory) and "Schumann", ed. Seuil ("Шуман", ed. Orange factory) by André Boucourechliev

André Boucourechliev

André Boucourechliev was a French composer of Bulgarian origin.Born in Sofia, Boucourechliev studied piano at the Conservatory there. Subsequently he studied in Paris at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where he later taught piano...

 (translated in Bulgarian

Bulgarian language

Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...

 by Pavlina Ribarova and Zornitsa Kitinska).

Prizes

The prizes she has received include first prize at the international competition in Salerno 1978, the Usti and Labem Award at the age of 12, first prize at the Bulgarian Liszt-Bartok Competition in 1988. She has been awarded the "Golden Feather" award from Classic FM Sofia radio, 1997, the award of the Polish institute in Sofia for the 2010 Chopin year, 2010, the award of the Bulgarian "Salon of Arts" together with Michail Goleminov for his multimedia installation "Schuman-Oracle" and her concerts promoting Schumann's bicentenary, 2010.

Orange Factory

In 2003 she and the composer Michail Goleminov founded The Orange Factory Psychoacoustic Arts, an experimental music and multimedia studio and publishing house in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Discography