Local voice students have sung their hearts out, and now it’s time for piano students to get their fingers ready for the Vernon Registered Music Teachers’ Music Festival.
All Saints Anglican Church will be full with piano students as they perform for adjudicator Dimiter Terziev today at 1:30 p.m. The performances continue until Thursday at noon.
“The public are welcome to attend these free sessions at any time,” said Carol Stromberg, with the registered teachers association.
Kamloops-based pianist and instructor Terziev teaches piano at the Vernon Community Music School.
Born in Bulgaria, he graduated from the National Academy of Music in Sofia. After he moved to Canada, he earned a diploma of advanced music performance studies from Montreal’s Concordia University and a master’s in piano performance from the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
Living in Kamloops since 2002, Terziev is also an accompanist of the Sage Singers Choir in Ashcroft. He has performed numerous piano and chamber recitals in Canada, the U.S., Bulgaria, Germany, and the Netherlands.
He has also played with several Bulgarian orchestras and the Kamloops Symphony.
In 1989, he was awarded third prize at the Chopin National Competition in Bulgaria.
Terziev’s debut CD, Colours of Bulgaria: Piano Pieces by Pantcho Vladigerov, received four star reviews from both the CBC’s Sound Advice and La Scena Musicale Magazine.
His other successful recordings are Nocturnal World and The Beginning and End of Classicism. He is planning to record a fourth disc this year.
In addition, Terziev is a registered piano dealer and a sole agent for German pianos in the B.C. Interior
All voice and piano scholarship winners, chosen by the adjudicators, will perform at the Festival Gala Concert on March 10 at 2 p.m. at All Saints Anglican Church. Admission is by donation and all proceeds will go to the scholarship fund to support local students.
