Biography
A prize winner of national and
international solo and chamber competitions, scholar of The Royal Philharmonic
Society and the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Bulgaria, an award holder of
the Royal College of Music and Royal Philharmonic Society.
Nevena Atanasova was born and grew up in
Bulgaria. She graduated from Dobrin Petkov National School of Music and Dance
in Plovdiv in 2015 with distinctions and was awarded for highest academic and
artistic achievements. There, she studied flute under Ivailo Vasilev. In 2019,
Nevena graduated from the Royal College of Music with Honours, where she
studied with Sue Thomas, Kathleen Stevenson, and Rachel Brown. Her acquired
musical and stage experience has resulted in successes in a number of
international and national competitions, at which she has won different awards
including Second prize at the International Competition ‘Young virtuosos’,
Sofia, Bulgaria. As a young soloist, Nevena performed Carl Nielsen’s Flute
Concerto with Konstantin Dobroykov and the Plovdiv Symphony Orchestra.
In 2012, she joined her school’s symphony
orchestra of which she was a Principal flute until her graduation in 2015.
During this time the orchestra won a European Comenius Orchestral Project and
collaborated with the orchestra of the Conservatoire of Menorca, Spain. In
2015, she appeared with the State Opera of Stara Zagora as sub-principal flute & piccolo. Nevena has performed with the RCM Philharmonic, RCM Opera
Orchestra, London Classical Soloists, Caibigan Chamber Orchestra, Goodensemble Orchestra, KCLSO, Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra and St Paul's Opera. She also
had the pleasure of being part of the Philharmonia sit-in scheme on several
occasions, exploring repertoire from Brahms to Sibelius.
As a chamber musician, Nevena has been part of various ensembles, including NeKriMa trio (flute, French horn and piano), ‘Mozart’ quartet, ‘Bach reimagined’ free ensemble, ‘Marais’ Baroque flute trio sonata, and the RCM Wind Ensemble. Her achievements include First prize in the ‘Classical ensembles’ category at the Internet Music Competition – Belgrade, Serbia; and giving a performance of the Mozart flute quartet in D at the Austrian Embassy. Nevena is currently a member of Ensemble Matters, with whom she performed Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire at Bloomsbury Festival 2022.
Throughout the years, Nevena has
participated in the masterclasses of Patrick Gallois, Luisa Sello, Andras
Adorjan, Prof. Georgi Spassov, Mario Carbotta, Prof. Adah Jones, Paul
Edmund-Davies, Wilbert Hazelzet, Aldo Baerten, Peter Verhoyen, Herman van Kogelenberg, Andrea Wild, Matthieu Gauci-Ancelin and Mario Carolli . She currently studies privately with Sue Thomas and Robert Winn.
Furthermore, Nevena has developed her
interests in music education and community music. In 2021-2022 she was a Wigmore Hall Trainee Support Musician for Chamber Tots and currently works with Wigmore Hall Learning on regular basis. Throughout her studies she
participated in the RCM Sparks community and junior programmes where she
assisted and led music workshops for disadvantaged nursery and primary school
children for 3 years. From 2018 to 2020 she worked for Hounslow Music Service
where a number of her students were selected to perform alongside members of
the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall.
For her artistic achievements, she has
been awarded several scholarships, including an RCM Heddy Simpson award and a
Zetland Foundation Young Artist award, and Royal Philharmonic Society’s
Instrumental Prize by the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Trust. Nevena is
grateful to the Society for this prize, and now enjoys playing a flute by Wm.
S. Haynes.
Awards
2016
Royal Philharmonic society - instrument prize by the ‘Sir John Barbirolli’ memorial trust
2015
RCM Heddy Simpson Award
2014
2nd prize at the International competition Young virtuosos, Sofia, Bulgaria
2012
1st prize at the XVII International music competition and festival in Dobrich, Bulgaria
2011
2nd prize at the XVI International competition for young musicians in Dobrich, Bulgaria
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