Zlatina Deliradeva
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Zlatina Deliradeva is a Bulgarian choral conductor
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, Bulgaria
. She was educated at the Bulgarian State Conservatory, now National Music Academy, where she studied choral conducting with the founder of the Bulgarian choral school Prof. Georgi Dimitrov (conductor) and with Prof. Samuil Vidas.
In 1972 Zlatina Deliradeva became Conductor-in-Chief of the Detska Kitka Choir
of Plovdiv
, Bulgaria and her artistic biography has been closely linked with this choir. In the ensuing decades, Prof. Deliradeva consolidated the choir as one of the leading Bulgarian choral ensembles, winning a series of national and international awards from choral competitions and festivals across Eastern and Western Europe.
Zlatina Deliradeva is a professor of Choral Conducting at the Plovdiv Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts and one of the leading conducting pedagogues in the country. Between 1999 and 2008 she was the Academy’s Vice-Rector of Artistic Affairs and Postgraduate Studies.
Prof. Deliradeva is the recipient of the Best Conductor Award from the international choral competition in Celje (Slovenia), the Golden Lyre Award of the Union of Bulgarian Musicians and Dancers, the St. St. Cyril and Methodius Order, the Plovdiv Award for Music, the Copper Chan Award and the Crystal Lyre Award of the Union of Bulgarian Musicians and Dancers, the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture and Radio FM Classic (2007). She is Honorary Citizen of her hometown Chirpan and received the Honorary Sign of Plovdiv (2007).
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
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Biography
Zlatina Deliradeva was born on 24 September 1942 in ChirpanChirpan
Chirpan is a town on the Tekirska River in Stara Zagora Province, South-central Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Chirpan Municipality. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 16,355 inhabitants....
, Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
. She was educated at the Bulgarian State Conservatory, now National Music Academy, where she studied choral conducting with the founder of the Bulgarian choral school Prof. Georgi Dimitrov (conductor) and with Prof. Samuil Vidas.
In 1972 Zlatina Deliradeva became Conductor-in-Chief of the Detska Kitka Choir
Detska Kitka Choir
The Detska Kitka Choir is a girls’ choir based in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.- Biography :Founded in 1946 by Anastas Marinkev, the Detska Kitka Choir is one of the oldest and best known youth choirs in Bulgaria....
of Plovdiv
Plovdiv
Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia with a population of 338,153 inhabitants according to Census 2011. Plovdiv's history spans some 6,000 years, with traces of a Neolithic settlement dating to roughly 4000 BC; it is one of the oldest cities in Europe...
, Bulgaria and her artistic biography has been closely linked with this choir. In the ensuing decades, Prof. Deliradeva consolidated the choir as one of the leading Bulgarian choral ensembles, winning a series of national and international awards from choral competitions and festivals across Eastern and Western Europe.
Zlatina Deliradeva is a professor of Choral Conducting at the Plovdiv Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts and one of the leading conducting pedagogues in the country. Between 1999 and 2008 she was the Academy’s Vice-Rector of Artistic Affairs and Postgraduate Studies.
Prof. Deliradeva is the recipient of the Best Conductor Award from the international choral competition in Celje (Slovenia), the Golden Lyre Award of the Union of Bulgarian Musicians and Dancers, the St. St. Cyril and Methodius Order, the Plovdiv Award for Music, the Copper Chan Award and the Crystal Lyre Award of the Union of Bulgarian Musicians and Dancers, the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture and Radio FM Classic (2007). She is Honorary Citizen of her hometown Chirpan and received the Honorary Sign of Plovdiv (2007).
Awards and achievements with Detska Kitka Choir
- 2007 Crystal Lyre Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Performing Arts of the Union of Bulgarian Musicians and Dancers, the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture and Radio FM Classic
- 2006 International Festival of Advent and Christmas Music, Prague, Czech Republic – Festival Grand Prix; Gold Medal in Children’s Category
- 1999 International Choir Competition of Flanders, Maasmechelen, Belgium – 3rd Prize, Women’s Category
- 1998 International Choir Competition, Halle, Germany – The Gunter Erdman Special Award for best interpretation of a contemporary choral work
- 1997 The Golden Lyre Award of the Union of Bulgarian Musicians and Dancers
- 1996 The Plovdiv Award for achievement in the field of music
- 1995 International Choir Competition, Cantonigros, Spain – 3rd Prize in Children’s Category
- 1989 Prof. Georgi Dimitrov International Choir Competition, Varna, Bulgaria – Winner
- 1987 International Choir Competition, Arnhem, Netherlands – 3rd Prize
- 1984 Bela Bartok International Choir Competition, Debrecen, Hungary – Winner, Folklore Category; 2nd Prize, Contemporary Music Category
- 1981 International Choir Competition, Celje, Slovenia—Winner