Nayden Todorov Conducts Rachmaninov and Chamоuard

Maestro Nayden Todorov conducts Rachmaninov's Piano concert 2 and works by composer Chamourd with the Orchestra of Opera Plovdiv on 16 November at Concert Hall, 7 pm

Philippe Chamouard: After studying at the Conservatoire National supérieur de Musique de Paris the piano with Aline van Barentzen,  and composition with Roger Boutry (student of Nadia Boulanger), Philippe Chamouard  went to the University of Paris-Sorbonne where he obtained a doctorate in musicology. After having been writer/editor for Deutsche Grammophon, he taught composition until 2004  at  the University of Paris IV. In 2006, he published  a book about Gustav Mahler. Currently he spends most of its time on the composition.

His symphonic scores are programmed in France and abroad: Germany, Norway, Finland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Canada, USA, Salvador, Vietnam…as well as in many festivals.

Philippe Chamouard works essentially with orchestral scores: ten symphonies, concertante works with trumpet, cello, violin, celtic harp, japanese koto...but also with strings orchestra, voices, choirs...His works are recorded in Universal Music, Triton, Indesens/Calliope,Hortus, Skarbo.

Sofia Vasheruk was born on 14th May 1988 in Moscow. She began playing the piano at the age of 4. After half a year she was accepted to study piano in Moscow Gnesin`s College with prof. A. Traub. Already at the age of 6 she was giving performances in Germany as a solo pianist and as an accompanist for a choir.

In 2000 Sofia won the Special Prize at the N. Rubinstein Piano Competition in Moscow. In 2003 she finished Moscow Gnesin`s Music College and continued her studying in Chopin Music College in Moscow with prof. K. Knorre. During that period Sofia took part at the International Piano Competition for Young Musicians in Enschede (The Netherlands) and won the 3rd Prize. The next year she was invited to give several recitals there. Also she became a laureate at the National Competition/Festival of the Romantic Music for Young Musicians in Moscow (March 2007).

In 2012 Sofia successfully completed her bachelor degree in the Netherlands with the best possible mark (10 of 10). Sofia is one of the finalists of International Ferruccio Busoni Piano Competition in Bolzano, Italy (2013) 
In November 2013 she won the 3rd Prize at the biggest Dutch National Piano Competition “Young Pianists Foundation” in Amsterdam, performing the Tchaikovsky piano concerto No. 1 in the big hall of Muziekgebouw aan `t IJ with Noord Nederlands Orkest directed by Stefan Asbury.

Since 2013 Sofia is actively supported and promoted by International Knee and Hip Center Malta Ltd.

Sofia has graduated from Artez Conservatory in Enschede in August 2014 and got her Master Degree Diploma ‘Cum Laude’.

Now she regularly gives concerts as a solo pianist and as a part of various chamber ensembles, such as the duo with Daniel Herman Mostert (baritone) as members of VVHL Foundation, "Extra Piano duo" with Andrey Nesterenko (piano), duo with Yaroslav Abaimov (tenor), member of Siestango Quartet, and many other musicians.