Viviana Savova Piano Concerto No.1 Op.11 with Varna Philharmonic Orchestra

Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 Op.11 Viviana Savova

South African - Bulgarian classical pianist Viviana Savova perfoming on concert

Viviana Savova Concert

Savova was born in Varna, Bulgaria on the 15th of July 1977.She 
showed a great interest in music at a very early age and began 
studying piano at age of four. She was considered as a child 
prodigy after she won a few international competitions, played with 
different philharmonic orchestras in Bulgaria, as well as giving solo
concerts throughout the country. She has a wide repertoire and is 
known for her interpretations of the works of Frederic Chopin, Franz
Shubert,Robert Shuman,Franz Liszt and Sergei Rachmaninoff, as 
well as of Ludwig van Beethoven. Savova began piano studies at 
National School of Arts Dobri Christov Varna 
and at the age of nine she became a student of Professors Julia and
Konstantin  Ganev (pupils of Heinrich Neuhaus).

At the age of nine Savova made her debut performing Haydn's Piano 
Concerto No.11 in D Major with the Varna Philharmonic Orchestra. 
That same year, Savova gave her first recital in Varna and Sofia, Bulgaria. Savova's talents were revealed to the international scene in 1986,at the age nine,when she received the Bronze Medal at the
Virtuosi per musica di pianoforte competition for children in the 
Czech Republic. That same year, Savova won the Asambleia Zname na Mira (a state sponsored competition of the Ludmila Zhivkova's Foundation Zname na Mira) which by winning sent her to the Bulgarian Embassy in Zimbabwe where she(alongside the National College of Music of Zimbabwe) performed to the audience of former 
Zimbabwe President, Robert Mugabe. 
In 1987,at the age of ten,she won 1st  Prize at Concorso Internazionale di musica per I giovani "Citta di Stresa " in Italy than 3rd Prize at "Citta di Marsala " International  Piano Competition in Marsala, Italy. 
At the age of 12 in 1990,she participated at the 2 Etlingen International Piano Competition for Young Pianists in Germany where she won another Prize.
She graduated from the National School of Arts Dobri Christov Varna and her family immigrated to South Africa in 1991 when in 1994,Savova won the Gold Medal and 1st Prize at the Hennie Joubert 
Piano Competition, the Chopin Prize for the Best Performance of Chopin and the Special Prize of Hennie Joubert. In the same year ,she won the Gold Medal,1st Prize and the Prize for the Best Musician in South Africa at the Trustbank National Youth Music Competition (now known as the National Youth Music Competition) ,Chopin Prize for the Best Performance of Chopin and Overall Winner of the Competition.
At the age of seventeen, Savova returned to Bulgaria to continue her education where she won 1st Prize and the Special Prize of Albert Roussel at the 2nd International Competition for French Music Albert Roussel in Sofia, Bulgaria. 
In 1995,Savova competed in the El Concourse de Maria Canals at Barcelona where she won the 4th Prize Medal. 
She graduated from the National Academy of Music Professor 
Pancho Vladigerov Sofia,Bulgaria in the class of Professor 
Stella Dimitrova-Maistorova to which she then participated at 
ppIANISSIMO International Festival for Contemporary Piano Music in 2007 and having different concerts with Philharmonic Orchestras in Bulgaria playing Chopin, Liszt and Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos. 
