Julia Tsenova
Julia Tsenova (also Cenova Zenowa written, Bulgarian Юлия Ценова; born July 30, 1948 in Sofia, † April 11, 2010 ibid ) was a Bulgarian composer, pianist and music teacher.
Life
Tsenova studied composition with Pancho Wladigerow and piano with Bogomil Starschenow at the State Music Academy of Sofia. She also attended The International Composers ' class of Prof. Ton de Leeuw in Sofia (1981) and Amsterdam ( 1982).
From 1997, Tsenova was a professor of piano and composition at the Music Academy of Sofia. She was a member of the Bulgarian Composers Union and the International Society for Contemporary Music as chairman of the Bulgaruschen section.
As a professor at the State Music Academy in Sofia - where she has also done their training and diplomas in composition and piano - she taught in the subjects: composition and piano improvisation.
Music
The works of Julia Tsenova be performed throughout the world and the composer has received numerous awards and prizes for her works: symphonies, an opera, piano concertos, chamber music, compositions for voice and choirs, stage and children's music, songs, folk song arrangements, inter alia, m.
According to reviews: The style of Julia Tsenovas is broad, powerful and dynamic, very personally and emotionally, and uses the modern compositional techniques; some of her works are inspired by jazz, Indian and Mexican music. Her examination of the philosophical aspects of different cultures is clearly evident in their music.
To love - Time - Death Curriculum vitae, two song cycles for soprano and piano on poems by Ingeborg Bachmann: The world of thought Ingeborg Bachmann and her philosophy are brought by the music of the Bulgarian composer Julia Tsenova expressive outward. It's about the hidden fears and open panic to silence, thoughtfulness and a concern and makes affected. Melody, sounds and text merge into thrilling dramatic scenes. The selection of poems, which has taken the composer, is a mix of lyrical thought currents and philosophical essence of the love, time, and death is, and also the night that takes everything that beset us, and the past can be monitored, but also entails the possibility of a creative new beginning in itself. And still, the setting of poems by Ingeborg Bachmann for soprano and piano by the Bulgarian composer Julia Tsenova is a very expressive musical interpretation of the thought and philosophy of the great poet.
Awards
The name Julia Tsenova is in the Encyclopedia of Royal Britain and in the German encyclopedia The music in past and present ( MGG ). She was selected as Woman of the Year by the International Biographical Centre in 1995-96 in Cambridge (England ) and in the " 2000 outstanding people of the 20th century" - Encyclopedia of Cambridge in 1998 added. In the same year Tsenova was awarded the Distinguished leadership award from the American Biographical Institute and her biography has been included in The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership.
In 2002, the Bulgarian National Television has a documentary, titled prayers at the Wall, produced about Julia Tsenova and their work.