Dobrinka Tabakova
Dobrinka Tabakova (Bulgarian: Добринка Табакова; born 1980, Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is a British/Bulgarian composer.
Early life and education
Dobrinka Tabakova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria to medical physicists Vassilka and Slavik Tabakov. She won the Jean-Frederic Perrenoud Prize of the 4th International Competition of Music in Vienna when she was 14 years old. She studied at Alleyn's School London and the Royal Academy of Music in London and graduated the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Afterwards she was awarded a Ph.D. in composition from King's College, London. She studied composition under Simon Bainbridge, Diana Burrell, Robert Keeley and Andrew Schultz and has attended master classes with John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Alexander Goehr, Olav Anton Thommessen and Iannis Xenakis.
Compositional career
Dobrinka Tabakova's "Praise" was sung at St. Paul's Cathedral to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. She won the GSMD Lutoslawski Composition Prize in 1999 and the Adam Prize of King's College London for the song cycle Sonnets to Sundry Notes in Music in 2007. In 2011 Dobrinka Tabakova was awarded first prize and medal of the Sorel Organization's choral competition in New York.
Tabakova has received commissions from the Royal Philharmonic Society, BBC Radio 3, Cheltenham Music Festival, Britten Sinfonia, Three Choirs Festival, Wigmore Hall and the PRS for Music Foundation's first UK New Music Biennial in 2014.
Tabakova's compositions have been performed at music festivals throughout Britain, in Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Russia and throughout Europe and the United States. She was Composer in residence at Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival, Kremerata Baltica Festival in Sigulda, Latvia, Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, Austria, among others. Tabakova has worked with orchestras including Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Kammerorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Swan and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Her works have especially been performed by the violist Maxim Rysanov.[1][2] as well as violinists Gidon Kremer and Janine Jansen.
Dobrinka Tabakova's works have been recorded for Hyperion Records and Avie record label and in 2013 ECM Records released a full CD album devoted to her music, entitled String Paths. The album reached No.2 in the UK specialist classical chart and attracted numerous positive reviews. On 6 December 2013 the CD was nominated for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in the category "Best Classical Compendium" and was announced as one of the four albums supporting the Grammy nomination of ECM's founder and president Manfred Eicher for "Producer of the Year, Classical".
Selected works
Orchestral
- Concerto for Viola and Strings (2004)
- Schubert Arpeggione arrangement for string orchestra (2004)
- Suite in Old Style for viola, strings and harpsichord (2004)
- Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music for soprano and orchestra (2006/7)
- Concerto for Cello and Strings (2008)
- Sun Tryptich for solo violin, cello and strings (2007–09)
- Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (2010)
- Fantasie homage to Schubert for string orchestra (2013)
Chamber and solo instrumental
- Modetudes for solo piano (1998)
- In Focus for chamber ensemble (1999)
- Pirin for solo viola (2000)
- Insight for string trio (2002)
- Whispered Lullaby for viola and piano (2004)[3]
- Frozen River Flows for oboe & percussion (2005)
- Such different paths for string septet (2008)
- Suite in Jazz Style for viola and piano (2008)
- Dyptich for organ (2009)
Choral
- Praise for S.A.T.B. choir and organ (2002)
- Of the Sun Born (От Слънце Родена) for S.A.T.B. choir and soprano solo (2008)
- On the South Downs for solo cello, orchestra and S.A.T.B. choir (2009)
- Syng, hevin imperiall for S.A.T.B. choir and organ (2011)
- Centuries of Meditations for S.A.T.B. choir, string orchestra and harp (2012)
- Alma Redemptoris Mater for S.A.T.B. choir (2014)[4]
References
- ↑ "Dobrinka Tabakova". Retrieved 23 September 2010.
- ↑ British and international music yearbook: Volume 1. 2006.
- ↑ BBC music magazine: Volume 15, Issues 7-13. British Broadcasting Corporation. 2007.
- ↑ http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/chapel-choir/merton-choirbook/collection