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The Bulgarian organist, musical director, music pedagogue, composer and musicologist, Neva Krysteva (or Krasteva) (Bulgarian: Нева Кръстева), graduated from Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, or from Moscow State Music Academy in Music Studies and Organ, majoring in organ (in the Professor Leonid Roizmann's class) and musicology. She continued her post-graduate studies in Prague and Zürich with Professor Jiří Rheinberger, with Yuri Holopov for musicology and Leonid Royzman and Iri Reinberger for organ. In 1978, she attended a master-class in Poland (Villa Liutoslawski) where she presented her Heterophony Miniatures for organ (1974)
Neva Krysteva's career is separated in three general branches - organ performances, musicology and composition. In 1978 she organized the first organ class in Bulgaria. After completing her education, she taught organ at the National Academy of Music in Bulgaria (since 1973) and became head of the organ classes at New Bulgarian University. She founded the first Bulgarian organ school in 1978 at the National Academy of Music and it has continued in NBU. Since 1994 she has been Professor of Polyphony. She also works as a lecturer at the National Academy of Music. Krasteva has published a number of professional articles. She is a member of the Bach Society in Leipzig.
Since 1974, Neva Krysteva has given many concerts throughout Europe (Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Russia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania) and in Asia. Her performing career in Bulgaria - her native country - starts in 1974, after the new pipe organ in Bulgaria Concert Hall in Sofia was installed. She performed twice the complete organ works by J.S. Bach in concert in Sofia. Her repertoire includes Baroque and Romantic music as well as 20th-century works. Her recordings were released on LP's. She recorded for the Bulgarian National Radio and the Bulgarian National Television.
During her entire career as a composer, pedagogue, music theoretician and performer Neva Krysteva has emphasized the role of music as a messenger of intransient deep spirituality. She has composed vocal-instrumental works for voice and organ; works for organ; chamber vocal and instrumental music; choral music, etc. Selected works include:
Рефлекси (Reflexi) (Text: after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Старата икона (Starata ikona) (Text: Ivan Minchov Vazov)
Върхът (Varhat) (Text: Ivan Minchov Vazov)
1899 for Voice and Organ on the poem "The Old Icon" by Ivan Vazov
Requiem
She is the author of music theory studies and monographs, most of which were collected in Music Theory Studies, vol. 1-3. |
