Ivajla Kirova

Artistic Activity

From 2022

Ivajla Kirova was awarded with "Piano Olympics Ordre des Arts 2023"

Jury-Member at several International Piano Competitions such as European Piano Competition in Tallinn, Steinway Piano Competition in Trossingen, Olympics Piano Competition in Hong Kong

Neu Year's Concerts in collaboration with Steinway & Sons in Dubai, UAE and in Bangkok, Thailand (2022/2023)

Video-Recordings of own piano compositions on the Maldives (2022/2023)

Solo and Chamber Music Concerts at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, Germany (2022/2023)

Concert Tour in several big cities of Bulgaria (October & November 2022)

Online-Concerts with own compositions and Online-Meisterclasses during Covid-19

2014-2019

Outstanding Advocate of Contemporary Musical Arts Award (Hong Kong, 2020)

CD Recording 2020 - My Favorite Encores by Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Schubert, Liszt, Chopin and Herea (Con Brio Recordings USA, CBR 22091)

Delta Kapa Gama International Honor Society Award for key women educators with extraordinary achievements all over the world (Atlanta, USA 2019)

Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No.2 with AUC Symphony Orchestra in the USA (2019). Concerts and new CD Recording in Germany (2019). Piano Masterclass in Dubai, UAE (2019).

Piano Recitals in Hong Kong, China, Bulgaria, Germany, Malaysia (2018).

Concerts with GENESIS Orchestra in Bulgaria and in Germany (2018).

First performances of works by several Bulgarian composers in Asia (2018).

Piano Masterclasses in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2018).

Jury member at Olympics Piano Competition in Taipeh, Taiwan (2018).

2016/2017 - Piano Recitals and Concerts with GENESIS Orchestra in Germany, Bulgaria, in the Middle East (Dubai) and in Asia. Masterclasses in Bangkok und Shanghai (2017)

CD-Recording with works by Bulgarian composers Vladigerov, Kruschev und Raitschev (Con Brio Recordings USA 2016)

2014/2015 - Concerts in Germany, Spain and in Malaysia. Masterclass for piano in Kuala Lumpur (2015)

Bulgarian National Radio broadcast a one hour program about Ivajla Kirova (2014)

CD-Recording in memoriam Maestro Alexis Weissenberg (IFO Classics, added to the prestigious classical music cataloque of Bielefeld, Munich 2014)

Artistic Director of the Concert Series "Bulgarian Musical Evenings in Munich" in Nymphenburg Palace

Chairwoman of the Association for promotion of Bulgarian classical music in Germany (2014-2019)

2006-2013

Publication of 14 Children Songs by famous Bulgarian poems - Ivajla Kirova (Daga Plus Bulgaria 2013, ISMN 979-0-9016679-2-1)

Publication of 11 Variations for piano on the Bulgarian folk melody "Hoisata" - Ivajla Kirova (Daga Plus Bulgaria 2013, ISMN 979-0-9016679-1-4)

Cooperation with Bulgarian Schools in Munich from 2013/14

Publication of 5 Miniatures for piano - Ivajla Kirova (Daga Plus Bulgaria 2013, ISMN 979-0-9016679-07)

Publication of "Rainbow of sounds" - Lyrics by Ivajla Kirova in Bulgarian language (Daga Plus Bulgaria 2013, ISBN 978-954-9387-78-0)

Piano Masterclasses in cooperation with And Vision, Tokyo (Japan)

Solo and Chamber Music Concerts with works of Mozart and Beethoven in Germany

Regular Piano Teaching and Concerts of Students at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich

2001-2005

Member of the Association of Munich Musicians e.V.

Masterclass and Final Concert at the High School of Music, Dance and Theatre in Bulgaria/Stara Zagora

Jury member of the 4. International Piano Competition "Classical and Contemporary" in Bulgaria

Official Steinway Artist since 2003

Final Concert of the Masterclass Maestro Alexis Weissenberg in Engelberg-recorded for Swiss Radio DRS 2

Concerts in Munich in cooperation with Pianistenclub e.V.

Concerts in occasion of the German-Bulgarian Poetic Anthology by Ilse von Heydwolff-Kullmann

Chamber Music Concerts as Associate Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich

Bulgarian Concerts in Munich in memory of the Bulgarian composers Dimitar Nenov, Georgi Zlatev-Tscherkin, Alexander und Pantscho Vladigerov

1997-2000

Masterclasses final examination at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich (Brahms-Paganini Variations op.35 & Sonata op.5)

Piano festivals participation at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich

Piano recital in Steinway-House in Munich, as first Bulgarian pianist within the "Young Artist" concert series

Concerts with pieces by Bach, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Liszt, Granados, Dimitar Nenov (Germany, Italy)

Concerts with pieces by Mozart in Kolbermoor/Mozart society

Final Concert of the Chamber Music Masterclasses Prof. Reiner Ginzel

Concerts at the Munich "Residenz"/Max Joseph Hall

1993-1996

Concerts at the State Music Academy in Sofia/Bulgaria

Piano Recitals in Sofia/Bulgaria Hall (concert agency "Music")

Benefit Concert for the orphans in Bulgaria-recorded for Radio Stara Zagora etc.

1988-1992

Concerts in the largest cities in Bulgaria, partly with special cycles for Ljubomir Pipkov and Dimitar Nenov (Union of Bulgarian composers in Sofia)

Prize of Polish Culture Institute in Bulgaria for best interpretation of Chopin's Ballade op. 47 within the Chopin's concert series

Yearly solo and chamber music concerts at the Special Music School in Sofia

1984-1987

Concerts in Museum "Tschudomir" Kazanlak, Theater Haskovo, Theater Dimitrovgrad, Culture Center Radnevo, Concert Hall of Radio Stara Zagora etc.

First Public Concerts in Bulgaria with Sonatas by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Waltzes by Chopin