{"id":69,"count":27,"description":"Albena Petrovic is a Luxembourgish composer of Bulgarian origin. Born in Sofia in 1965, she got her Master in Composition and music writing and her final diploma as a concert pianist in Bulgaria, and since 1996 she lives in  Luxembourg.\r\n\r\nShe has written more than 600 works in various music genres. Some of her works are published by SCHOTT MUSIC International, Luxembourg Music Publishers,  and her pedagogical work is published by her own edition.\r\n\r\nIn 2001, she composed the music for the musical book \u201cWann de Piano rose g\u00ebtt\u201d(The Angry Piano), published by CID Femmes and edition PHI. In 2007, her composition \u201cGladius\u201d for electric guitar and instrumental ensemble was commissioned for the Cultural Year in Luxembourg and the Greater Region. At the same time, she was granted the \u201cCultural Award 2007\u201d from the municipality of Hesperange.  That same year, she was also a Jury member of the International Composition Competition \u201cValentino Bucchi\u201d in Rome, Italy.\r\n\r\nIn 2008 and 2009, two works for brass ensembles \u2013 \u201cMy name is Taurus\u201d and \u201cEl Bosque  Encantado\u201d were written and performed.\r\n\r\nThe premiere of her instrumental theatre piece \u201cLe Retour des Papillons\u201d (\u201cThe Return of Butterflies\u201d), a multidisciplinary project with original music, pantomime, light effects and video elements, took place in 2010 in the Luxembourg Philharmonie.\r\n\r\nThe year 2011 was dedicated to a complex pedagogical project \u2013 the musical theatre for children \u201cThe Bunny in Love\u201d and an illustrated musical book with a CD. The same year she composed \u201cTo meet a Bird\u201d for violin and piano  and \u201cMagnifico\u201d- concert piece for solo trombone and ensemble, performed in the Luxembourg Philharmonie in 2012. \r\n\r\nMany of her instrumental pieces are performed also outside Luxembourg \u2013 in Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Slovakia,  Serbia, Austria, Croatia, USA. She is currently working on a new instrumental opera \u201cThe Dark\u201d.\r\n\r\nAlbena Petrovic is President\/Founder of the International Composition Competition \u201cArtistes en Herbe\u201d (\u201cBudding Artists\u201d) under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg. That Competition is unique in its kind in Western Europe ","link":"https:\/\/musicpublishers.lu\/product-category\/petrovic-vratchanska-albena\/","name":"Petrovic-Vratchanska Albena *1965","slug":"petrovic-vratchanska-albena","taxonomy":"product_cat","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicpublishers.lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicpublishers.lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicpublishers.lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/product_cat"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicpublishers.lu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?product_cat=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}