Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean

Anna-Maria Ravnopolska-Dean je významná bulharská hudobná skladateľka, pedagogička a harfistka.

Životopis

Narodila sa v Sofii. Študovala hru na harfu u Liana Pasquali (na Konzervatóriu v Bukurešti) a Susann McDonald (na Vysokej škole múzických umení v Bloomingtone).

Diskografia

• Bulgarian Harp Favorites, Arpa d’oro, CD 2003

• Legende: French Music for Harp, Gega compact disc, 1999

• Harpist at the Opera (honoring the Donizetti bicentennial), Arpa d'oro CD, 1997

• Harps of the Americas (Paraguayan and pedal harps), Arpa d'oro CD, 1996

• Erich Schubert Pop Harp Festival, Gega CD, 1994

• A Harpist's Invitation to the Dance, Gega CD, 1992

Tvorba

• Improvisation for harp solo, June 2003
• “The turtle’s castle” for harp solo, September 2003
• Four compositions for harp on Haiku poetry, October 2003
• Waltz and Lullaby for piano solo, November 2003
• Rap Tango for harp and voice, November 2003
• Suite of eight dances: Laendrer, Tango, Fandango, Horo,

Kazachok, Arabian dance, Pavane, April 2004

• "Fantasy on Traviata”, June 2005
• Two haiku pieces on Basho, February 2006
• “The mystic trumpeter” on Walt Whitman, February 2006
• Five haiku pieces “Solo Honkadorae Renga”, February 2006

Personálna bibliografia

• Modeling orchestration on harp techniques in the works of Wagner, Smetana and Stravinski, “WHC Review”, to be published
• The Harp in the orchestral works of Bulgarian Composers (1900-1930)

"Music yesterday-today", 2002

• The Harp as a Coloristic Instrument in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century ("Арфата като колористичен инструмент в началото на ХХ век"), 200 pp., ISBN 954-90353-9-5, Music Society “Vassil Stefanov”, 2001
• The Harp as a Coloristic Instrument in the works of Claude Debussy,

“Musical Horizons”, vol. 7 - 8, 2001, 21- 25, 27 - 33.

• Transcriptions for solo harp, Sofia String Institute, 1995
• Regular contributor to the World Harp Congress Review, 1981- present
• Arrangements for solo harp: Granados, Valses Poeticos, Albeniz, Suita Espagnol, 1988

Externé odkazy

• http://home.aubg.bg/faculty/amrdean/