Prof. Jenny Zaharieva
Work biography
Jenny Zaharieva has met with critical acclaim as recitalist and guest soloist throughout Europe, Far East and Africa. She has performed with the Philharmonic Orchestras of Amsterdam, Liege, Nordelijk, Sofia, Singapore, The Residentie Orchestra of The Hagues and Deutsche Streichersolisten of Berlin, among others.
A frequent guest at music festivals, she has appeared at the Summer Music Festival (Moscow), Grand Piano Festival (Amsterdam), Ochrid Summer (Macedonia), Arcady Music Festival (Maine, USA), Sully-sur-Loire (France), Sofia Music Weeks, Varna Summer (Bulgaria), Moscow Summer Festival (Russia).
The artists gave the European premiere of Lalo Schifrin's "Concerto of the Americas"under the baton of Maestro Lalo Schifrin. This composition was part of the Piano Project at the Steinway Foundation and was dedicated to the quincentenary of the discovery of America.
Jenny Zaharieva was the first pianist to perform a full recital on a very special Steinway & Sons Rhapsody blue grand piano, built to commemorate the composer and pianist George Gershwin.
Jenny Zaharieva initiated the restoration of the Clara Schumann's legendary 1832 piano, which is kept in Branitzschloss, Germany. She is also the first pianist to have recorded and performed on it.
Born in Sofia Mr.Zaharieva graduated from the Tchaikovski Moscow Concervatoire. She is top prizewinner of the "Robert Schumann", Germany, "M. Long", Paris and "IXth International Youth Festival" Piano Competitions. Currently she is a guest-professor in Paris at the Conservatoire National Superieur, Tchaikovski Moscow Conservatoire as well as in Brussels, Venice, Rotterdam, New York, New Jersey, Yokohama, Athens…
She is also the Founder and Artistic Director of the international competitions "Music and Earth", Summer Music Academy "Ondine", "Albert Roussel", President of the Union of the Bulgarian Musicians and Dancers and National Association for Protection of Performer's Rights, Regional Director of Piano Duo Association, Tokyo and The Lechetizky Association, New York (Balkan States).
Mr. Zaharieva has recorded for EMS, AVM Classics, Veton, Gema, Musical Heritage (USA), Balkanton, Sofia.
"Jenny Zaharieva is a wonderful, world-class painists, an inaginative musician with a fine feel for color and rubato."
Musical Heritage Review
"A pianist of high level…, she offered us rich sonority with deep internal resonance, followed by nuances singing toucher with precise articulation. An act of purity, worthy of the hand of a master!"
Thierry Guerin "La Repoublique", France
"It was just a drawing away. It was like a sidereal moment in Geisendorf Music Hall. A performance on the keys, like a proclamation of human nature, art as a message for the greatness of the Earthly. A few piano players – soloists only could demonstrate nowadays so soundly, such as the Bulgarian Jenny Zaharieva". (Drawing Away after "Stainway", Jenny Zaharieva, a guest of Gut Geisendorf Music Hall)
Kultur – Elbe – Elster, by Klaus Trende
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