Musical Arts International, Inc.

Musical Arts International, Inc

Presents

30^th anniversary celebration

Teodora Adzharova & Shirley Yoo Piano Duo

http://www.musicalartsinternational.org

Laureate of numerous national and international competitions, Teodora Adzharova’s career has taken her to multiple performance venues in the United States, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Macedonia and the Czech Republic. Currently based in Baltimore, MD, she has established herself as one of the most sought-after chamber musicians in the Baltimore, MD-Washington, D.C. region, frequently collaborating with musicians from both the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Some of Dr. Adzharova’s recent performances include appearances at Catholic University, York College, Bulgarian Embassy in Washington, D.C., Novi Sad, Washington College, Towson University, University of Maryland, and Silo Hill. On many occasions, Dr. Adzharova’s recordings have been broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today. Dr. Adzharova’s 2024–2025 season will feature the release of her debut solo album dedicated to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. The CD will include the composer’s Preludes, Op. 34 and Piano Sonata, Op. 61. One of the few pianists who performs both of Shostakovich’s piano sonatas in a single program, Dr. Adzharova presented a lecture-recital of the repertoire at the World Piano Conference in Serbia and the DiMenna Center in New York. In 2019, Dr. Adzharova’s dedication to chamber music and community engagement led her to become the Co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of the Annunciation Cathedral Concert Series.  Each season, the series provides inventive and accessible classical music programming to the Baltimore community and promotes high-caliber artists from the region. As a passionate educator, Dr. Adzharova serves as a Visiting lecturer in Piano at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and is a member of the piano faculty at the Peabody Preparatory. She is a board member of GBMTA and has served as an adjudicator for NVMTA, GBMTA, HCPTA, and WIPAC competitions. Dr. Adzharova holds piano Performance Diploma and DMA degrees from the Peabody Institute where she studied with Ellen Mack.

Heralded by the Washington Post as a pianist with “extraordinary sensitivity and technical skill,” Shirley Yoo has performed internationally at venues such as the Kennedy Center Concert Hall; Tata Theatre, Mumbai; Arts Center, Seoul; Penderecki Festival, Banff; Societa Filarmonica, Trento; and Steinway Hall, London. Her numerous performances in the United States include radio broadcasts of solo and chamber recitals on WQED and WQLN. Recognized as a top prizewinner for her solo performance in such competitions as the Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs, the National Society of Arts and Letters, and the Kosciuszko Foundation’s National Chopin Competition. She is also passionate about chamber music. She was a founding member of the Annapolis Chamber Players, an ensemble of winds, strings and two pianos and League of the Unsound Sound (LotUS), a chamber group dedicated to performing contemporary and experimental music. In their first season, the Washington Post reviewed their concert at Catholic University and called her playing “a spectacular performance... that really stole the show.” Dedicated to nurturing the next generation of musicians, she has been teaching in the university and conservatory setting for over two decades. She has judged for various competitions and mentored by renowned artists including Marc Durand, Leon Fleisher, Ellen Mack, Raymond Hanson, Marek Jablonski, and Seymour Lipkin, as well as Guarneri, Juilliard, Shanghai, and Tokyo String Quartets. Yoo received a Master of Music degree at the University of Maryland and completed post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and DMA degree at Peabody Institute. She had taught at the Conservatory and at Temple Preparatory and while working at Curtis Institute as staff accompanist. She then held a professorship in piano and was Artist-in-Residence of the D’Angelo Piano Trio at Mercyhurst University. She is teaching piano and chamber music at Peabody Conservatory. The recipient of a Presser Award, Yoo was also awarded a Maryland State Arts Council Grant.

 

Tickets: regular $25, student $20. Please mail a check to MAI, PO Box 2284, Silver Spring, 20915 or email a message to musicalartsinternational@yahoo.com or call 301-933-3715 for Venmo deposit.

 

Program:

Beethoven Sonata in D Major, op 6
Dvorak Slavonic Dances
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite

Ravel Mother Goose Suite
Brahms Hungarian Dances

 

Date: Sunday, November 24, 2024 @3 pm

 

Address:

Calvary Lutheran Church

9545 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20910

Between 495 and Georgia Ave. Metro red line to Forest Glen. Free parking on Flora Lane, reception follows. Handicap accessible.

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Musical Arts International, Inc. is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization.