Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean

Anna -Maria Ravnopolska - Dean ( Bulgarian Анна - Мария Равнополска - Дийн; born August 3, 1960 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian harpist, composer and musicologist.

Biography

Ravnopolska Dean studied at the Italian harpist and a professor Liana Pasquali and then to the Spanish harpist Nicanor Zabaleta. She continued her education in the U.S. continues with Susann McDonald, at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she received the Artist Diploma ( Artist Diploma ). In 1992 she debuted in the New York's Carnegie Hall.

In 1992 she co-founded the American University in Bulgaria. She teaches harp and piano, occasionally she gives lessons to musicological topics.

In 2003 she wrote her first composition "Improvisation " in the style of Bulgarian folk music.

Publications

Books and articles

  • Modeling orchestration on harp techniques in the works of Wagner, Smetana and Stravinski, " WHC Review", to be published
  • The Harp in the orchestral works of Bulgarian Composers (1900-1930) "Music yesterday - today", 2002
  • The Harp as a Coloristic instrument in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, 200 pp.. , ISBN 954-90353-9-5, Music Society " Vassil Stefanov ", 2001
  • The Harp as a Coloristic instrument in the works of Claude Debussy, "Musical Horizons ", vol. 7 - 8, 2001, 21-25, 27 - 33
  • Transcriptions for solo harp, Sofia String Institute, 1995
  • Arrangements for solo harp: Granados, Valses Poeticos, Albeniz, Suita Espagnol, 1988

Compositions

  • Improvisation ( harp ), 2003
  • The Schildkrötens Castle (harp), September 2003
  • Four Haiku compositions (harp), October 2003
  • Waltz and Berceuse ( Piano), November 2003
  • Rap Tango ( harp), November 2003
  • Suite (8 dances ). Landler, Tango, Fandango, Horo, Kazachok, Arab dance, Pavane (harp) April 2004
  • Traviata - Fantasy ( harp) June 2005
  • Two haiku compositions (harp), February 2006
  • The Mystic Trumpeter ( Walt Whitman ) ( harp), February 2006
  • Five Haiku compositions - Solo Honkadorae Renga (harp), February 2006

Discography

  • Bulgarian Harp Favorites, CD 2003
  • Legend: French Music for Harp, 1999
  • Harps of the Americas ( Paraguayan harps and pedal ), CD, 1996
  • Erich Schubert Pop Harp Festival, 1994
  • A Harpist 's Invitation to the Dance, 1992
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