Donka Angatscheva - Childhood Memories (2022) Hi-Res

The Austrian concert pianist with Bulgarian roots received her master's degree from the University of Music in Vienna, where she studied with the famous Professor Heinz Medjimorec. She then continued her studies at the Queen Elisabeth College of Music in Brussels, with the renowned Artemis Quartet. The winner of numerous competitions, whose technique was shaped from an early age by the disciplined Liszt school of her Russian piano teacher, played public concerts at the age of five and completed her first concert as a soloist with the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra at the age of ten. Donka Angatscheva led various master classes, including one in Ecuador at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Quito. Her lively concert activities, both as a soloist and with well-known orchestras, have meanwhile brought her international recognition and allowed her skills to continue to mature. She gave concerts on the big stages of the world, for example in the Musikvereinssaal Vienna, Konzerthaus Vienna, in the concert hall Franz Liszt Raiding, in the Tonhalle Zurich as well as the concert halls in Olten, Madrid, Brussels, Flagey-Brussels, Sofia, Thessaloniki, Menton, Montpellier etc As an experienced Chopin and Liszt interpreter, she demonstrates her ability and her great admiration for these composers, both as a rousing soloist and as a chamber musician, but also in interaction with symphony orchestras. With her piano trio Trio DAnte, she repeatedly unleashed storms of enthusiasm from audiences and critics alike. In 2019 Donka Angatscheva was accepted into the circle of Bösendorfer Artists, in the prominent company of Sir Andras Schiff, Christoph Eschenbach, Rudolf Buchbinder, etc. In the same year, the pianist was awarded the sponsorship prize of art-st-urban classics, Switzerland . Also that year she gave concerts with members of the Vienna Philharmonic in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein and was subsequently awarded the Golden Spring Award.