Yanica Hristova plays Friedrich Gulda

Studio concert

In memory of great and legendary recordings with Friedrich Gulda in the MPS studio Yanica Hristova the Bösendorfer Grand Imperial, which the eccentric exceptional musician from Vienna chose himself and whose 97 keys were played by him for the first time. Gulda, who was under contract with Bösendorfer, was only allowed to record on this instrument. Hans-Georg Brunner-Schwer purchased the Imperial for the MPS studio. In order to get this colossus into the recording room, parts of the staircase had to be dismantled.

Monty Alexander, Joachim Kühn, Cecil Taylor, George Shearing, Wolfgang Dauner and many other pianists have also had the pleasure of playing this instrument, which weighs over half a ton and is 2.90 meters long.

Among other things, Yanica Hristova has worked on the Gulda album „The long road to freedom“, so variations of “Light my Fire” or “Play Piano Play“ will be heard alongside other tracks.

The excellent pianist, who originally comes from Rousse in the north of Bulgaria, has settled in Holland, Switzerland and now Germany in recent years.

Among the musical mentors with whom she has worked are names such as Lazar Bermann, Klaus Hellwig, Pascal Devoyon, Mikhail Voskresensky, Boris Bermann, Boris Bloch, Jacques Rouvier and many others.

She premiered the complete cycle ”Regards sur l` Enfant Jesus“ by Olivier Messiaen in Holland in the composer's year. The music of Beethoven, Chopin and Mozart occupies a very special place in her repertoire, but she is also inspired by contemporary music.

Yanica Hristova began playing the piano at the age of 9 and made her debut 3 years later with the ”Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra”. After graduating from the National Art School ”Professor Vesselin Stoyanov” in Rousse, she continued her higher education at the ”Prince Claus” Conservatory-Groningen and at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. In 2012, she completed a master's degree at the Zurich University of Music under the direction of Prof. Konstantin Scherbakov.

Hristova has taken part in numerous master classes and has won more than 40 prizes at national and international competitions in Bulgaria, Romania, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Turkey.

Most recently, she won second prize at the “Concours International de Piano Istanbul Orchestra `Sion“ - Istanbul, Turkey, first prize at the international competition “Hairs of Orpheus“ - Bulgaria, and first prize at the international competition “Gallery of Talents“ - Cheliabinsk, Russia. She is a lecturer at the master classes of the “Akademie Alb-Bodensee“ in Messkirch and the Bundesakademie in Trossingen, Germany.

In 2022 she released her CD ”Etudes, impromptus“ with works by Franz Schubert and classical and contemporary Bulgarian composers.

25.6.2023

MPS-STUDIO

Admission 16:00
Start: 17:00

Admission members / reduced: 16
Admission Regular: 20 Euro

Box office (if tickets still available / without guarantee): 22 Euro