Viktor Valkov

Name:	Viktor Valkov
Location:	new york United States 10023
Contact:	valkov.viktor@gmail.com Send Viktor Valkov a message

Additional Info:	Viktor Valkov highly acclaimed by the critics as “lion of the keyboard” and “sensational” has conquered numerous prizes at international piano competitions. Since 2002 Valkov has given a number of recitals in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, Italy, Germany, Japan and USA. A Japanese tour in 2002 took him to Tokyo, Toyama, Yokohama and Okinawa after which he received a full scholarship for the “8-th Hamamatsu Piano Academy”. In Bulgaria, Viktor Valkov appeared in performances with most of the major orchestras and at most of the important music festivals such as March Music Days, Sofia Musical Weeks, Apollonia, Plovdiv Chamber Festival and others. In 2007, Mr.Valkov made his debut with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra. The same year, he played at the opening of the Passau Music Festival, Germany. Mr.Valkov’s concert activities also reflect a vast interest in the chamber music repertoire, as well as lesser known piano music. He frequently performs with the Bulgarian cellist, Lachezar Kostov, in a cello and piano duo. Both being deeply interested in broadening the repertoire for that medium, they often include in their programs composers like Kabalevsky, Roslavetz and Saint-Saens (the Second cello Sonata). Their close friendship and professional collaboration began in 2000. As a solo performer one of Mr.Valkov’s last projects featured Busoni’s Fantasia Contrappuntistica as the focal point of his concert programs. Viktor Valkov studied at the State Music Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria with Prof. Stella Dimitrova and subsequently in the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen,Germany with Michael Roll. In the summer of 2006 he took part in the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara and subsequently earned his Masters Degree at the Juilliard School studying with Jerome Lowenthal and Matti Raekallio. From 2003 to 2005 he also worked with Michelle Beroff, Jorg Demus and Oxana Yablonskaya. In the fall of 2008, Viktor Valkov started pursuing a DMA Degree at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY with Gilbert Kalish. Mr.Valkov has made a number of recordings for the Bulgarian National Radio archive, many of which have been broadcast. He has also recorded for Bulgarian National Television and Macedonian Radio and Television. In October the same year he recorded the entire music for cello and piano by Nikolay Roslavets in collaboration with the cellist Lachezar Kostov. This CD is scheduled to be released by NAXOS in 2010.
Instruments:	Piano
Additional Specialisms:	Instrumental Accompaniment, Vocal Accompaniment