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prepared piano/piano
www.tzenkadianova.com
Tzenka Dianova was born February 9, 1971 in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, in a family of musicians. Her precocious talent and artistry were recognized early, enabling her to study with some of Bulgaria’s and Russia’s most distinguished pedagogues, such as Eleonora Karamisheva and Marina Kapatsinskaya, as well as world-famous pedagogue Dimitri Bashkirov.
Tzenka began her piano and theory studies at the age of 3, first with her father, and two years later at the State School of Music in Pleven, where she completed 14 years of extensive studies in piano performance, chamber music, accompanying and theory of art and music. Her further studies include Bachelors and Magister of Arts at the State Academy of Music in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she worked under the guidance of Russian pianist Marina Kapatsinskaya and Prof. Dimitri Kozev from the Dimov String Quartet.
In 1998 the pianist moved to Canada, where she completed a Masters Degree at the University of Victoria, working closely with many fine musicians, such as Canadian virtuoso Bruce Vogt and world-famous scholar Dr. Erich Schwandt. In the first months of her studies at the University of Victoria, Tzenka became interested in and devoted all her time to the performance of 20th and 21st Century music. She collaborated with some of Canada’s best composers, such as Gilles Tremblay, John Celona, Wolf Edwards and Christopher Butterfield, and has commissioned and premiered their works in Canada and Bulgaria.
Since her debut at the age of five, Tzenka has played numerous recitals throughout Bulgaria, Eastern Europe, Austria, Italy, Canada and New Zealand, including solo and chamber music and concertos with orchestra. The pianist was one of the youngest artists to participate in the World Children’s Assembly in Sofia, 1978. She has recorded for Bulgarian National Radio and Television and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She has been an active member and participant with the Bulgarian Society for Modern Music and has taken part in the International Festival of Modern Music Musica Nova in Sofia and the Tic.Toc International Festival of New Performance in Victoria, Canada. She has been a prize-winner at many national and international piano competitions.
Ms. Dianova has regularly performed as a soloist and orchestra member with the Pleven Philharmonics, Sofia State Academy Philharmonics, the Victoria Symphony and the Auckland University Orchestra.
In January 2005 Tzenka began Doctoral studies at the University of Auckland, under the guidance of Prof. Tamas Vesmas. Her studies are devoted to the music of the 20th and 21st Centuries, and she is preparing the world premiere of John Celona’s piano monument nella memoriam in Auckland, 2007.
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