Nadejda Vlaeva

Bulgarian-born pianist Nadejda Vlaeva is a Liszt specialist whose talent has been acclaimed by her teacher Lazar Berman and by Liszt biographer Alan Walker. She has maintained links with the Bulgarian music scene, working closely with composer Dimiter Christoff to present his music in broadcasts. She won a major prize at a Liszt competition in Italy when she was 15 and took a prize for best interpretation of Brahms at the Liszt Competition in Weimar. Vlaeva's concerto credits include appearances with the Budapest Symphony and Calgary Philharmonic. Vlaeva is the dedicatee of two works by composer Lowell Liebermann. Vlaeva made her recording debut with a pair of albums devoted to Christoff's music in the mid-1990s. Piano Music of Liszt earned a Grand Prix du Disque award. In 2016, Vlaeva released an album of music by Sergei Bortkiewicz and, in 2021, issued an album devoted to composer Pancho Vladigerov.