Biography
Marina Staneva earned designation as a Young Steinway Artist in 2020. Partial training in Britain enabled her to establish a professional presence there and to sign with the Chandos label.
Childhood in Bulgaria brought enrollment in an after-school music program before first grade began. When the class required an instrument choice, relatives urged the accordion because it was the only one present at home, yet Staneva named the piano instead. She entered the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia in 2011, studying with Stella Dimitrova-Maystorova and Iliya Chernaev before graduating in 2015.
Further study took her to Britain, where she completed a master’s degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2017 and an advanced diploma there the following year, subsequently receiving a Junior Fellowship from the same institution. Her principal teachers were Philip Jenkins, Pamela Lidiard, and Alisdair Hogarth, whom she regards as her mentor. The Sam Hutchings Piano Prize arrived in 2019, and the Young Steinway Artist title followed in 2020.
Her recording debut occurred in 2019 on the album A Love Letter to Liverpool. Solo and collaborative appearances have included Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, the Royal Opera House, and several engagements at Milton Court Concert Hall, all in London; she has also performed with the Liverpool Philharmonic and been featured on the Classic FM network. Festival performances have taken her across Britain and abroad to the Lichfield Festival, the London Contemporary Festival, multiple events in Italy, and Varna Summer in Bulgaria.
Staneva’s first Chandos release, Slavic Roots: Vladigerov, Tabakova, appeared in 2022; an album of works by Federico Mompou followed in 2023.
Childhood in Bulgaria brought enrollment in an after-school music program before first grade began. When the class required an instrument choice, relatives urged the accordion because it was the only one present at home, yet Staneva named the piano instead. She entered the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia in 2011, studying with Stella Dimitrova-Maystorova and Iliya Chernaev before graduating in 2015.
Further study took her to Britain, where she completed a master’s degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2017 and an advanced diploma there the following year, subsequently receiving a Junior Fellowship from the same institution. Her principal teachers were Philip Jenkins, Pamela Lidiard, and Alisdair Hogarth, whom she regards as her mentor. The Sam Hutchings Piano Prize arrived in 2019, and the Young Steinway Artist title followed in 2020.
Her recording debut occurred in 2019 on the album A Love Letter to Liverpool. Solo and collaborative appearances have included Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, the Royal Opera House, and several engagements at Milton Court Concert Hall, all in London; she has also performed with the Liverpool Philharmonic and been featured on the Classic FM network. Festival performances have taken her across Britain and abroad to the Lichfield Festival, the London Contemporary Festival, multiple events in Italy, and Varna Summer in Bulgaria.
Staneva’s first Chandos release, Slavic Roots: Vladigerov, Tabakova, appeared in 2022; an album of works by Federico Mompou followed in 2023.
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