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Fall Concert Series ~
"Music of the Angels"
PERFORMER
Ina Mirtcheva
Ina Radeva Mirtcheva
started playing the piano when she was
five years old. From 1st to 9th grade she attended L.
Pipkov Music School in Sofia, Bulgaria studying piano with K. Karadimchev.
In 1998 she moved with her family to the United States and was part of the
honors program at Levine School of Music in Washington DC. Ms. Mirtcheva
earned her Bachelors and Masters of Music in Piano Performance from George
Mason University studying piano with Dr. Anna Balakerskaia. She earned a
second Masters in Instrumental Collaborative Piano at the University of
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she had a full graduate
scholarship and assistantship and studied piano and chamber music with James
Tocco and Sandra
Rivers.
Currently Ms. Mirtcheva is back at George Mason where she is teaching
and taking classes towards a Doctorate in Musical Arts, and she is
performing in the Washington Metropolitan Area.
Ms. Mirtcheva
has performed in numerous recitals as a soloist and with chamber music
ensembles at venues including the Kennedy Center, Smithsonian Institute,
Werner Recital Hall, Prosels Castle, The Lyceum. Ina Mirtcheva has also
performed internationally in Italy, Holland, Poland, Bulgaria and Canada.
She is a recipient of a Strathmore Hall Award, J. C. Cook Scholarship,
Peterson Award. In 2003 Ms. Mirtcheva
was a GMU Concerto Competition winner and performed with the George Mason
Symphony Orchestra in the Annual Music Scholarship Concert. During the
summers of 2003 and 2004 Ms. Mirtcheva and her trio D’Anciana were
Fellowship Artists at the Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Seminar in San
Francisco, CA. Ms. Mirtcheva has also participated in the Interharmony
International Music Festivals in Soesterberg, Netherlands in their 2003 and
2004 season and The Berkshires in 2007.
In 2008 Ina Mirtcheva was part of the Opera, Theatre and Music
Festival in Lucca, Italy on a full scholarship. In 2007 she won the Ohio
Federation of Music Clubs best Collaborative Artist Award.
In August 2009, Ms. Mirtcheva won the Schlern International
Competition. She was also the College Division Concerto Competition winner
of VMTA and, in the Summer of 2010, she performed in Poland as part of the
Mozart Plus festival and in Vipiteno, Italy at the Orfeo International Music
Festival.
Fall Concert Series
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