Zdravka Vasileva - Yordan Kamdzhalov Foundation

Zdravka Vasileva

is from the youngest generation of Bulgarian trumpet players. Born in 1999 in Svilengrad, she started studying trumpet when she was 10 years old, at the Children Music School in Svilengad. Zdravka was a part of the class of Pencho Penchev, with whom she continues her education at the National School of Music and Stage Arts “Hristina Morfova” in Stara Zagora, and Academy of Music, Dance and Visual Arts “Prof. Asen Diamandiev” in Plovdiv. Through these years she reaches many significant acheivements:

2009: III Prize and prize “Successful debut” from International Competition – Stara Zagora
2011: I Prize in the international competition “Ohrid Pearls” – Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia
2011: III Prize from VI International Competition for Young Trumpeters – Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
2012: I Prize and Gold Medal from the “Orpheus Gift” competition – Sofia, Bulgaria
2012: Special prize from the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture for high professional accomplishments
2012: Prize from the mayor of Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
2012: Invited alongside more talented kids of Bulgaria for a special meeting with the President
2012: I Prize from the international competition “Peter Konjovic” – Belgrade, Serbia
2013: I Prize from VII International Competition for Young Trumpeters – Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
2014: Nomination for Student of the Year in National School of Music and Stage Arts “Hristina Morfova” for high accomplishments
2015: I Prize in the international competition “Ohrid Pearls” – Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia
2015: I Prize from VIII International Competition for Young Trumpeters – Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
2015: I Prize from III International competition “Ohrid te sakam” – Ohrid, Macedonia
2016: I Prize from XXIII National competition “Vurban Vurbanov” for playing а Bulgarian music piece – Burgas, Bulgaria
2016: Special Prize and GRAND PRIX Prize from IV International Competition “Ohrid, I love you” – Ohrid, Macedonia
2016: I Prize from the international competition “Peter Konjovic” – Belgrade, Serbia
2017: GRAND Prix Prize from V International Competition “Road to Fame” – Karnolski Art Centre – Sofia, Bulgaria
2017: Nomination in category “Arts” from Foundation “Encho Keryazov” –
2017: I Prize from XII International competition for German and Austrian Music (21-23.04) – Burgas, Bulgaria
2018: Participation in the masterclass of professor Wim Van Hasselt – Belgium/Germany
2019: Masterclass with professor Andrey Ikov – soloist of “Bolshoi Theatre”, Moscow, Russia
2020: I Prize from IV International competition for chamber music and individual musicians “Borovec”
2021: II Prize in the National Radio Competition for young instrumentalists for the prizes of “Cantus Firmus”. The final concert will take place in Bulgaria Hall on 28.09.2021

Soloist of orchestras:

2011 , 2012, 2013 , 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 – soloist of the orchestra of the opera in Stara Zagora.
2013, 2014 and 2015 – soloist in the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra.
2014 – soloist of the Shumen Philharmonic Orchestra.
2018 – soloist of the Sliven symphony orchestra.
2014 and 2015 she is a soloist with Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra for a project together with the actor Ruslan Mainov (over 20 concerts in Bulgaria, as well as a concert in Hall 1 in the National Palace of Culture – Bulgaria)
2014 – touring in Germany, Austria and Luxembourg together with the Ruse Opera
2014, 2015 – participation in two plays by Ruse Opera (“Traviata” and “Otello”) with conductor Maestro Georgi Dimitrov
Since 2014, Zdravka is the leader of the female trumpet trio “Svilena”
Since 2019, she is the leader of the female academic trumpet quartet at the Academy of Music, Dance and Visual Arts “Prof. Asen Diamandiev”, Plovdiv
2017: Recital at the music festival “TEMPIETTO” in Rome, Italy, together with the Korean pianist Kwag Jongrey
2017: Invited to participate in the 26-th Lions European Music Competition “Thomas Kuti” in Montreux, Switzerland – the first Bulgarian musician ever to take place in this competition
27.05.2021: Plays concerto for trumpet and orchestra “Es dur” by Joseph Haydn, conducted by Jose Eduardo Pocas-Gomez (Portugal) together with the Pazardhik symphony orchestra
Since 2018, Zdravka is a soloist-trumpeter of Symphonic-operetta society “Maestro G. Atanasov” – Pazardzhik