Program

Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849)

Rondo, Op. 1

Mazurkas, Op. 50

I.               in G Major

II.             in A-flat Major

III.           in C-sharp Minor

Scherzo No.2, Op. 31

Pancho Vladigerov (1899 - 1978)

“Autumn Elegy”, Op. 15, No. 2

Lubomir Pipkov (1904 - 1974)

Pastorale, Op. 24  

Marin Goleminov (1908 - 2000)

Bulgarian Dance

Alexander Vladigerov (1933 - 1993)

Variations “Dilmano Dilbero”   

Milcho Leviev (1937 - 2019)

Toccatina

Bulgarian pianist Georgi Lekov started his musical education at the age of four. In 2014 he graduated from Music High School “Lubomir Pipkov” in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the piano classes of Еmiliya Kaneva and Prof. Ludmil Angelov. In 2018 Lekov earned his Bachelor of Music Degree from Mannes College The New School for Music under the guidance of Prof. Pavlina Dokovska and Dr. Vladimir Valjarevic, receiving the Steinway & Sons Piano Award. In 2020 he earned his Master of Music Degree, again, at Mannes College, majoring in Piano and Minoring in Impact Entrepreneurship at the New School of Social Research. Currently, Lekov is pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at University of Connecticut, serving as Teaching Assistant at the School of Fine Arts, and studying with Dr. Angelina Gadeliya.

            Mr. Lekov has won an impressive number of prizes in competitions in his native Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus, Belgium, China and USA and participated in masterclasses given by world-class artists such as Jerome Lowenthal, Richard Goode, Vladimir Felstman, Ursula Oppens, Steven Isserlis, Maxim Vengerov, Ivry Gitlis. He has performed as a soloist and chamber member in the US, China, Cyprus, Belgium, Netherlands, Turkey, Italy and his native Bulgaria. Lekov was featured as a soloist of  the most renowned Bulgarian orchestras such as Classic FM Orchestra, Sofia Philharmonic, New Symphony Orchestra, etc.

           As a recitalist and chamber musician, Georgi has appeared at the Concert Hall of the Central Conservatory in Beijing, Dimotiko Theatro in Larnaca, Chateau du Lac in Brussels, Concert Hall "Bulgaria" in Sofia. In New York, he has performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, The Union Club, the Bulgarian Consulate, the German Consulate, and the New School's Tishman Auditorium, among others.  Committed to exploration of the contemporary repertoire, Lekov has worked under the direction of various composers and took part in numerous world premieres of new works for piano and chamber ensembles.

             Highlights of the past season include recitals at the Riviera di Ulisse Festival in Italy as well as in  New York, Washington D.C. and Storrs, CT, presenting the “Celebration of Bulgarian Piano Music”, a program featuring works by twelve of the most distinguished and performed composers from Bulgaria.