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Locación Austria

Biografía Dora Deliyska, born in Pleven, Bulgaria in 1980, began piano lessons at the age of five. She successfully completed her master’s degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Her artistic development has been heavily influenced by Oxana Yablonskaya. She is attending the Oxana Yablonskaya Piano Institute of Italy since 2008.

The young pianist’s career has benefited greatly from scholarships from the Dr. Boesch Foundation (2002-2006), the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Art and Culture (2003), the Erasmus Scholarship in 2004 and, also that year, a one-semester scholarship to study at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague (in the class of Paul Komen) by the Labberte Foundation, which has also regularly supported the young pianist’s education and artistic activity
since 2006. In 2007, she was awarded the Josef Windisch Scholarship.

In spite of her youth, Dora Deliyska can already look back on comprehensive concert activity, not only as soloist and with orchestra — she has also performed numerous concerts with chamber music ensembles in many European countries.

The artist has been frequently invited to festivals and tours. Since 1999, she has played at the Varna Summer Days festival in Bulgaria, within the scope of master classes by Boris Bloch and Katrin Vickers; at the March Music Days in Russe, Bulgaria, the master class of
Bojidar Noev; at the Peter the Great Festival in Groningen, Holland; together with the Bulgarian violinist Valya Dervenska at the Europalia 2002, as well as chamber concerts at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, among other engagements. In 2004, she participated
in the Musica Arvenzis master class held in Bratislava by the Russian professor Marina Kapatsinskaja; that year she also toured Italy and Croatia. A concert tour together with the Russian violist Benjamin Bernstein also brought her to Croatia as well as Slovenia. She performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488 at the 2005 Laureate Days in Pleven; from 2005 to 2007 she participated in the Holland Music Sessions in Bergen and in 2006 in the Gelderse Muziekzomer in Apeldoorn, Holland. These performances were followed in 2007 by her first engagement by the Brucknertage in St. Florian, Upper Austria, as well as her participation in the international master class of Prof. Balazs Szokolay in Keszthely, Hungary. She
has performed frequently in Vienna’s Bösendorfer Hall and Yamaha Concert Hall. Within the scope of the 2008 Piano World Festival in Groningen, Dora Deliyska performed a Liszt
recital in Oosterpoort Music Center. In addition, in March 2008, she
performed Liszt’s 2nd Piano Concerto for the European Music Festival in Sofia, in the “Concertmasters” cycle prized by connoisseurs; her performance was taped for Bulgarian television. She has likewise performed concerts for the BAWAG/PSK bank in Vienna.

Already in 1997, Dora Deliyska was awarded a special prize at the Bulgarian national music competition Svetoslav Obretenov. The next year she won second prize and special prize for best performance of a work by Rachmaninov at the Russian Music Piano Competition
in Pleven, first prize and special prize of the Pantcho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia, as well as first prize at the National Piano Accompaniment Competition in
Pleven. These awards were followed in 1999 by second prize at the Dimitar Nenov Piano Competition, and first prize at the Yamaha Piano Competition in Linz, Austria, in 2002. The 2003 International Summer Academy Prague-Vienna-Budapest distinguished Dora Deliyska
with its first prize for the performance of a Viennese Classical work, and in the same year she won first prize at the Stefano Marizza International Piano Competition in Trieste. In
2007 she was quarterfinalist in the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht, Holland.
Following her performance in Trieste,
“The young musician now displayed all signs of a fully mature artist:
technique, intelligence, passion and charm.… She plays with a full, honest and warm sound.”
La Vocce del Popolo” November 2003