Teodora Adzharova, piano

The Department of Music presents pianist Teodora Adzharova, whose program ...remnants... will feature works by Michael Hersch and Galina Ustvolskaya.

Laureate of numerous national and international competitions, Teodora Adzharova has had a career that has taken her to multiple performance venues in the United States, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Macedonia and the Czech Republic. Currently based in Baltimore, she has established herself as one of the most sought-after chamber musicians in the Baltimore-Washington region, frequently collaborating with musicians from both the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Some of Adzharova’s recent performances include appearances at Catholic University, York College, Bulgarian Embassy in Washington, D.C., Novi Sad, Washington College, Towson University, University of Maryland, and Silo Hill. On many occasions, her recordings have been broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today. She is a visiting lecturer of piano at UMBC.

The complete program:
Michael Hersch (b. 1971) — Selections from The Vanishing Pavilions (2005)
Galina Ustvolskaya (1919–2006) — Twelve preludes for piano (1953)