DESISLAVA NIKOLOVA

Desislava Nikolova was born in Plovdiv in 1976. She started taking piano lessons when she was 4 years old, and when she turned 14 she began her harp practice with Zdravka Koleva. Dessislava finished the “Dobrin Petkov” High-School of Music in 1994, and in 1998 she graduated from the National Academy of Music and Dance in Plovdiv. She has had numerous solo performances at concerts with the Pazardjik Symphonic Orchestra, the Plovdiv Philharmonic, the Academic Symphonic Orchestra, as well as some recitals of her own. She won first prize at the Young Musical Talents National Contest in Sofia, 1994. In 1999 Desislava recorded her first CD with Plovdiv Philharmonic under the direction of Nayden Todorov.