2009 Scholarship ResultsJury:
Felice Pomeranz
Rebecca Bogers
Susan Miron
Winner:
TOMINA PARVANOVA - Master of Music student at the Boston University, College of Fine Arts
- Project: Marcel Tournier 1st International Harp Competition, October 28-30, 2009, Cosenza, Italy
Runner-up: SAMUEL KARLINSKI - Student at New England Conservatory Preparatory Division
Application requirements for the 2010 scholarship will be posted on this website in March/April 2010. 2009 Scholarship Winner: TOMINA PARVANOVABulgarian harpist Tomina Parvanova began her training on the harp at the age of 11 as a student of Kohar Andonian at the National Music School “Lubomir Pipkov”. While at the music school Tomina was a first prize winner at the Bulgarian International Harp Competition “Young Virtuoso” and third prize at the International Festival of Music “Coast of Hope” Dobrich, Bulgaria. In 2005, when studying with Prof. Malina Hristova at the National Music Academy “Pancho Vladigerov”, Tomina was a second prize winner at the National Music Academy Competition in Sofia, Bulgaria and she was chosen between candidates from all over the world to perform on the 9th World Harp Congress, Dublin “Focus on Youth “concerts. While in Bulgaria, Tomina appeared as a soloist with Pazardjic Symphony Orchestra performing the Dottersdorf Concerto for Harp and Orchestra. She was a principal harpist with Sofia Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, Pazardjic Symphony Orchestra, Bulgarian National Academy Symphony Orchestra and she has also toured through Europe with collaborative Youth Bulgarian Orchestras. Tomina participated at The Winter Music Nights Festival in Pazardjic, Bulgaria (2004) where she performed with the world famous Bulgarian tenor Kaludi Kaludov.
In 2005, Tomina entered The Boston Conservatory, with a full tuition scholarship as a student of Cynthia Price-Glynn, harpist with the Boston Ballet. She was awarded an additional scholarship from Caryl Zighera an honor of her late husband Bernard Zighera who was Principal Harpist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 2007 Tomina performed as a soloist with Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble premiering “Zusienku” – Poem for Harp and Wind Ensemble, winner of the 2007 Concerto Composition Competition and she was a winner of the Boston Conservatory Chamber Music Honors Competition. Tomina has performed with Back Bay Chorale, Providence Singers and she has served as principal harpist with Boston Ballet, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Longwood Symphony Orchestra, MIT Symphony Orchestra. Tomina has collaborated on recordings with Boston String Quartet, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Providence Singers and Pazardjic Symphony Orchestra (Bulgaria).
Tomina has performed in Master Classes with Catherine Michel, Elizabeth Fontan-Binoche, Ursula Holliger, Emily Mitchell and Sioned Williams. Part of “Musicales”, she has performed on concert series at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She is featured on “Muziko Monda” a 2008 recording of the Boston Conservatory world music ensemble in which she performs music from all over the world. In addition, Tomina gives class presentation as well as individual consultations to composers at The Boston Conservatory who are interested in writing for the harp.
Born in 1985 in Sofia Bulgaria, Tomina Parvanova grew up in a musical family. She began her musical training with the piano at the age of 6 and when she was 11 she continued her education as a harpist. Tomina completed her Bachelor of music Degree in harp performance from The Boston Conservatory as a Chabners Scholar, an award position enabled by the scholarship of Bruce and Davi-Ellen Chabner. She is currently a student of at the College of Fine Arts, Boston University. |
About Ann Hobson Pilot Ann Hobson Pilot is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music. She became principal harp of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1980, having joined the BSO in 1969 as assistant principal harp and principal harp with the Boston Pops. Previously she was substitute second harp with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and principal harp of Washington, D.C.’s National Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Pilot also has had an extensive solo career; she has performed as a soloist with many American orchestras, as well as with orchestras in Europe, Haiti, New Zealand, and South Africa. She has several recordings available on the Boston Records label, as well as on the Koch International and Denouement labels. Ms. Pilot is the recipient of a Doctor of Fine Arts from Bridgewater State College. In 1998 and 1999 she was featured in a video documentary sponsored by the Museum of Afro-American History and WGBH, aired nationwide on PBS, about her personal musical journey as well as her African journey to find the roots of the harp. In September 1999 she traveled to London to record, with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Harp Concerto by the young American composer Kevin Kaska, a work that she commissioned. Ms. Pilot is on the faculties of New England Conservatory, Boston University, the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. She is a member of the contemporary music ensemble Collage New Music and has also performed with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players and the Marlboro, Newport, and Sarasota music festivals, among others. Her solo performances with the BSO have included her solo debut in Mozart’s Concerto in C for Flute and Harp at Tanglewood in July 1972 and Debussy’s Danses Sacrée et profane with Charles Dutoit in July 1999. Her solo appearances in the 2005-06 season include performances with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Indian Hill Chamber Orchestra, and Boston Classical Orchestra. |
