April 2001 Concert
The Pro-Mozart Society of Atlanta's April 2001 concert featured Duo Pianists Pavlina Dokovska and Vladimir Valjarevic.
Program
Pavlina Dokovska and Vladimir Valjarevic presented the following program :
"Sonata for Two Pianos" in D major K448 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
"Lindaraja" by Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
Paganini Variations by W. Lutoslawski (1913 - 1994)
"Concertino", Opus 74 by D. Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)
"A Night for Love" from Fantasy for 2 pianos Opus 5, Suite 1 by S. Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
"Porgy and Bess", arr. P. Grainger by George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
Top Artist biographies
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Pavlina Dokovska Pavlina Dokovska was born in Bulgaria and graduated from the Music Academy of Sofia, Bulgaria. She completed her Master of Music degree at the Juilliard School in New York. She was a First Prize winner of France’s Claude Debussy International Competition and Italy’s International Piano Competition of Senigallia.She was named Artistic Director of the “Chopin at Mannes” Festival, that features the entire oeuvre of Chopin in 1999. During season 98/99, she played Prokofiev’s 3rd Piano Concerto with the Augsburg Symphony in Germany, made her annual appearance at the Southwest Virginia Festival in Richlands, Virginia, and performed a series of seven recitals in jamor venues across Taiwan.In the last couple of seasons, she made her debuts in New York (Frick Collection), Munich (Gasteig Hall), Washington, DC (National Gallery) and performed recitals in La Jolla, Albany, at the Klavierfestival Ruhr in Bochum, and across California. She has also performed at the Spoleto Festival in Italy, and the Mai Musical in Bordeaux. |
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Vladimir Valjarevic Vladimir Valjarevic was born in Yugoslavia, began studying piano at six, and gave his first piano recital at fourteen. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in 1996, followed by the Master of Music degree in 1997. He has been a major prizewinner of two international competitions in Italy and five national competitions. He has performed at different venues including Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, Steinway Hall, Polish and French Consulates, the Harvard Club, the Siena College Concert Series in Albany, NY, “Young Musicians Forum” series in Schenectady, NY, the Southwest Virginia Festival of Arts and various performances in Vermont, Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and New York area as well as in Italy. The Netherlands, and France. He has appeared with Camerata Academica and the Chamber Orchestra of Nish in Yugoslavia and Youngstown Symphony and Bridgeport Youth Orchestra in the United States. Mr. Valjarevic is currently on the piano faculty of both 92nd Street Y School of Music and the Mannes College Preparatory and Extension Divisions. |
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