site.btaBulgarian Horn Player Victor Teodosiev and Pianist Angelina Decheva to Perform at 31st Young Virtuosi International Music Cycle in Ljubljana

Horn player Victor Teodosiev and pianist Angelina Decheva will perform in Ljubljana on January 25. The concert will be at the Knights' Hall of the Križanke Summer Theatre and will be part of the 31st Young Virtuosi International Music Cycle, the Bulgarian Embassy in Slovenia said in a post on the social media. 

On the programme is Mozart's Rondo for Horn and Piano in E-flat major, K. 371; En forêt, for horn and piano, Op. 40 by Eugène Bozza; and Sergei Rachmaninoff's Vocalise, Op. 34, among others.

Born in 2005, Victor Teodosiev is a third-generation horn player. His grandfather was a member of the Bulgarian Radio Orchestra and his father principal horn player at the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra and professor at the National Academy of Music in Sofia. Victor began playing the horn at the age of 12. In 2019 he was accepted into the National Music School in Sofia with the highest number of points of any applicant in his age group; in the same year, he was also invited to play in the European Youth Symphony Orchestra PROGRESSIVE, which featured performers from 11 European countries in that year’s European Capital of Culture, Plovdiv. He was also the youngest active participant in the Kroměříž Summer Music Academy in the class of the world-renowned Czech horn player Radek Baborák, the long-time principal horn player of the Berlin Philharmonic. He has received numerous prizes at national and international competitions, and this year he was chosen from among 400 applicants from around the world to become principal horn player of the Concertgebouworkest Young (the international youth orchestra of the Concertgebouw Orchestra).

Angelina Decheva graduated in piano at the National Academy of Music in Sofia. She undertook postgraduate studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music, after which she moved to the US and completed her conducting studies at Oakland University in Michigan. She is the recipient of many awards at international piano competitions in Italy and Greece, and has performed as a soloist on a number of occasions in piano concertos by Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Ludwig van Beethoven. She is currently teaching at the National Academy of Music in Sofia in the wind and percussion department.