Marina Simeonova Bio 2020

Marina Simeonova, Piano
Based in Boston, award-winning Bulgarian pianist Marina Simeonova has become

known for planning exciting concert programs emphasizing chamber music,
20th-century and contemporary music. Currently a student of Professor Pavel
Nersessian's at Boston University, Marina completed her Performance
Diploma/Undergraduate degree at the Royal Conservatory — The Glenn Gould School
in Toronto with Professors John Perry and David Louie.
Over the past few years, Simeonova has taken the stage in Tunisia, Italy, Germany,
Canada, the US, Bulgaria and the Netherlands in halls including The Acropolis of
Carthage, Koerner Hall, Mazzoleni hall, Temerty Theatre, Bulgaria Hall, 98 Sudbury and
the Kröller-Müller Museum, among others.
A staunch supporter of new music, Simeonova is proud to have commissioned and

premiered works by B. Abrashev, Alice Hong and Canadian composers Saman Shahi
and George Thurgood. She strives to present works of young talents and established
composers alike. The 2019-2020 season will see a new recording project of Shahi’s
work.
Born into a family of journalists, Simeonova began playing the piano at the age of six
and graduated from the National Music School ‘Lyubomir Pipkov,' Sofia, in the studio
of Professor Alexander Vassilenko. She studied with Professor Iliya Tchernaev in the
National Music Academy in Sofia from 2013-2014, and with Professor John Perry and
David Louie in the Royal Conservatory of Music – The Glenn Gould School, from
2014-2018.
As a soloist, her awards include 1st prize at the Second International Competition for
Young Pianists in Tunisia, 1st prize at the XVI International Competition ‘Hopes,
Talents, Masters’, 2nd prize at the IX International Competition for French music ‘Albert
Russel' and the Fifth Festival de la Musique de Pierre-du Sorel, and the 2nd Audience
Award at the ‘Klaviersommer Cochem' Festival.
An active chamber music performer, Marina has also won 1st Prize at the Royal
Conservatory of Music Chamber Music Competition with the “Tibúron Quintet (of six)”
(2016), 1st prize and the Audience Award in the 12th "Florinda Santos" competition in
Portugal, as part of a piano duo with Edgar Cardoso (2014), as well 3rd prize and
consecutively 2nd prize at the RCM Chamber Music Competition with “The Eastern
Trio”, in 2017 and 2018.
In 2012, Marina received a diploma for Outstanding Artistic Achievements from the
Ministry of Culture of Bulgaria. In 2013, she founded and performed in "Little Summer
Concerts", a fundraising festival for young Bulgarian musicians in Plovdiv.
Some of her most recent projects include ‘’High noon – an anthology of Kanye West”,
organized by Banded Purple (2018, Toronto), and “Let’s talk about music” - a piano
recital to raise awareness of youth struggling with mental illness (2019, Boston).
Marina has also been a soloist of the New Symphony Orchestra, Vratsa Symphony,
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and others. She gave two solo recitals during the Musica
Sem Fronteiras Festival in the cities of Porto and Agueda, Portugal in 2014. She also
made her New York City debut in May of 2017, performing at the Gotham Arts piano
salon series.
Ms. Simeonova has had the privilege to learn from some of the most famous musicians
of our time, such as Leon Fleisher, John O’Connor, Stephen Hough, Robert McDonald,
Michel Beroff, Stephen Prutsman, Francine Kay, Alasdair Tait, Colin Carr, Stephen
Williamson, the Gryphon trio, Andrez Diaz, Desmond Hoebig, and many others.
Ms. Simeonova was on the jury of the 45th and the 46th edition of the Music
Scarborough festival in Toronto. While residing there, she was also the Music Director
of Bethany Baptist church from 2015-2017 , and maintained a large private piano
studio from 2015-2018.
Marina is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Boston University, in the studio of
Pavel Nersessian’s. She has been invited to be the youngest faculty member at the
Beauliere Academy of Music in Saint-Marc, Haiti, in 2020.
To find more information about Ms. Simeonova’s upcoming and past performances,
please visit https://www.facebook.com/MarinaSimeonovaPianist , or Instagram
@marinasmusic

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Based in Boston, award-winning Bulgarian pianist Marina Simeonova has become

A staunch supporter of new music, Simeonova is proud to have commissioned and

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