Dobrinka Tabakova

1980

Plovdiv, Plovdiv Municipality, Bulgaria

Dobrinka Tabakova"s "Praise" was sung at Saint Paul"s Cathedral to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth World War II In 2011 Dobrinka Tabakova was awarded first prize and medal of the Sorel Organization"s choral competition in New New York Tabakova has received commissions from the Royal Philharmonic Society, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3, Cheltenham Music Festival, Britten Sinfonia, Three Choirs Festival, Wigmore Hall and the PRS for Music Foundation"s first United Kingdom New Music Biennial in 2014. Tabakova"s compositions have been performed at music festivals throughout Britain, in Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Russia and throughout Europe and the United States. She was Composer in residence at Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival, Kremerata Baltica Festival in Sigulda, Latvia, Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, Austria, among others Tabakova has worked with orchestras including Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Kammerorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Swan and British Broadcasting Corporation National Orchestra of Wales. as well as violinists Gidon Kremer and Janine Jansen. Dobrinka Tabakova"s works have been recorded for Hyperion Records and Avie record label and in 2013 ECM Records released a full Civil Defense album devoted to her music, entitled String Paths. The album reached Number.2 in the United Kingdom specialist classical chart and attracted numerous positive reviews.

Dobrinka Tabakova

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Background

Dobrinka Tabakova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria to medical physicists Vassilka and Slavik Tabakov.

Education

She studied at Alleyn"s School London and the Royal Academy of Music in London and graduated the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Afterwards she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in composition from King"s College, London. She studied composition under Simon Bainbridge, Diana Burrell, Robert Keeley and Andrew Schultz and has attended master classes with John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Alexander Goehr, Olav Anton Thommessen and Iannis Xenakis.

Career

Dobrinka Tabakova"s "Praise" was sung at Saint Paul"s Cathedral to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth World War II In 2011 Dobrinka Tabakova was awarded first prize and medal of the Sorel Organization"s choral competition in New New York Tabakova has received commissions from the Royal Philharmonic Society, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3, Cheltenham Music Festival, Britten Sinfonia, Three Choirs Festival, Wigmore Hall and the PRS for Music Foundation"s first United Kingdom New Music Biennial in 2014. Tabakova"s compositions have been performed at music festivals throughout Britain, in Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Russia and throughout Europe and the United States.

She was Composer in residence at Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival, Kremerata Baltica Festival in Sigulda, Latvia, Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, Austria, among others

Tabakova has worked with orchestras including Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Kammerorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Swan and British Broadcasting Corporation National Orchestra of Wales. as well as violinists Gidon Kremer and Janine Jansen. Dobrinka Tabakova"s works have been recorded for Hyperion Records and Avie record label and in 2013 ECM Records released a full Civil Defense album devoted to her music, entitled String Paths.

The album reached Number.2 in the United Kingdom specialist classical chart and attracted numerous positive reviews.

Achievements

She won the Jean-Frederic Perrenoud Prize of the 4th International Competition of Music in Vienna when she was 14 years old. She won the GSMD Lutoslawski Composition Prize in 1999 and the Adam Prize of King"s College London for the song cycle Sonnets to Sundry Notes in Music in 2007. On 6 December 2013 the Civil Defense was nominated for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in the category "Best Classical Compendium" and was announced as one of the four albums supporting the Grammy nomination of ECM"s founder and president Manfred Eicher for "Producer of the Year, Classical".

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