Tzvetan Konstantinov
Piano
tzvetan.konstantinov@gwu.edu
ext. 43991
Phillips Hall B-128
Master of Music, 1974,
State Academy of Music "Pancho Vladigerov", Sofia, Bulgaria;
Post-Graduate Studies, 1977,
State Academy of Music "Pancho Vladigerov", Sofia, Bulgaria;
Post-Graduate Studies, 1979,
University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria.
Professor Tzvetan Konstantinov, a native of Sofia, Bulgaria, received
a Master of Music in Performance from the State Academy of Music
"Pancho Vladigerov", graduating summa cum laude. Consequently, he was
selected for an exclusive two-year post-graduate program
"Meisterklass" at the State Academy of Music "Pancho Vladigerov" in
Sofia, Bulgaria. In his second post-graduate program at the University
of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria, he specialized in
"Viennese Classics, Romantics and Moderns". Essentially a pupil of
Velichka Savova, he studied also with Rudolf Kehrer, Bella Davidovich,
Grant Johannesen, Tatiana Nikolaeva and Eugene Malinin among others.
After winning the two most important competitions in Bulgaria, Prof.
Konstantinov toured his native country extensively. Having performed
the complete Bach's Well Tempered Clavier from memory, Prof.
Konstantinov has also performed in solo and chamber music concerts
(including with Gewandhaus Quartet) and with orchestras in concert
halls of Austria (including the Musikverein), Bulgaria (including the
Grand Hall Bulgaria), Germany, Italy, the Netherlands (including de
Doelen Hall), the Philippines and the United States (including the
Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Strathmore Hall, the Cleveland Museum
of Art and Meany Hall, to name a few). During his last several years
in Bulgaria he was also a Professor of Music at State Academy of Music
in Sofia. Prof. Konstantinov has appeared frequently on radio and
television. He has been featured on WGMS' "Spotlight", WETA's "Capital
Concerts" and VOA. The Bulgarian National Television broadcasted
repeatedly an exclusive documentary on the artist, while one of the
largest Bulgarian daily newspaper "Democracy" published an exclusive
interview. Prof. Konstantinov is listed in the American Keyboard
Artists, Who's Who in
America and in the Who's Who in the World. He has served as a board
member of the Metropolitan Chorus, Washington, D. C. and has served
also as juror during
the Festivals of Music and the First and Second Washington
International Piano Amateur Competitions. Prof. Konstantinov is much
sought after for his expertise in the 19th and 20th centuries Russian
and Eastern European music, including works by "The Five": Alexander
Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Cesar Cui, Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolai
Rimsky-Korsakov.
