At her New York orchestral debut with conductor Philippe Entremont, shortly followed by a second invitation, Petrova was noted for her “ultra-smooth playing style”- New York Fine Arts Examiner. She is an Assistant Professor of Piano at University of Louisville, KY and performs extensively as a soloist and chamber musician.
This season Petrova is performing the Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto with the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra; Bartok Sonata for Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra with the Timisoara Symphony Orchestra (Romania) and conductor Jonathan Pasternack; Schumann works for piano and orchestra with the Iasi Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania), touring China on a CD release tour with her debut solo album A Slavic Heart for the Melos label, and performing a number of solo recitals in the US and Europe.
She is the Artistic Director and Founder of the Alberto Jonás International School of Music in Valencia, Spain. Currently, she is working on a two-CD set of the complete piano sonatas of Russian composer Samuil Feinberg for NAXOS.
Highlights of recent seasons include a recording of Stravinsky's Les Noces with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and conductor JoAnn Falletta, Virginia Arts Festival (NAXOS, 2016); a solo tour of Chile; a masterclass and solo recital in Beijing, China, and performances of Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini, Prokofiev First and Third Piano Concertos, and the Beethoven Triple Concerto. At her return engagement with the Monterey Symphony Orchestra, CA, the Peninsula Reviews wrote: “There was a lot of vitality in her crisp playing […]bringing out in Petrova an impetuous excitement that stirred the audience to its feet at its conclusion.”- Lyn Bronson.
Prizewinner of numerous international competitions, including the José Roca (Spain), Bösendorfer (Bulgaria) and Maria Yudina (Russia), Petrova was a semifinalist at the Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition in Belgium, where she performed as a soloist with the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia under Paul Goodwin. Other conductors she has worked with include Max Bragado-Darman, Bruno Aprea, Ramón Tébar, and Francisco Valero – Terribas.
She has given solo recitals in halls such as Carnegie’s Weil Recital Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Brussels’ Conservatoire Royal, Chicago’s Preston Bradley Hall, Vienna’s Bösendorfer Hall, Auditorio Ciudad de Leon, Spain and Palau de la Musica Valencia, Spain.
Her performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio Performance Today, New York’s WQXR, Chicago’s WFMT, and Bulgarian National Radio and Television.
A passionate chamber musician, Petrova is a member of two ensembles: the viola-piano Carr-Petrova Duo and the clarinet-viola-piano Iris Trio.
This season the Duo will perform and hold masterclasses in the US, Spain, Bulgaria and Israel in addition to directing and performing the interdisciplinary project – Novel Voices – designed to help raise awareness for refugees and refugee aid programs. Their debut album will be released on the Naxos label and they will make their Carnegie Hall debut this October.
The Iris Trio recently toured Germany with an innovative program featuring contemporary composers and recorded their debut album Hommage and Inspiration with works by Schumann, Mozart, Kurtág and Weiss. Their future engagements include a CD release tour of Canada with performances of their new project which will feature classical music pieces by jazz composers.
Other musicians she has strong collaborations with include the violinists Anna Margrethe Nilsen and Jesus Reina, and the pianist Josu De Solaun.
Petrova holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Manhattan School of Music, where her main teachers have been Horacio Gutiérrez and André-Michel Schub.
Her future engagements include concerto performances with Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2 and the Grieg Piano Concert with the Louisville Orchestra; a tour of China with the Carr-Petrova Duo; residencies and mastercalsses in the US and Spain.
Petrova, appearing for the first time as soloist with the Monterey Symphony, won the hearts of the audience with a sparkling performance of the outer movements and charmed us with her sweet playing of the aria-like second movement. There was a lot of vitality in her crisp playing, and she made the most of Mozart’s surprising excursions into unexpected tonalities and moments of Sturm und Drang. It was in the final Rondo movement that she made her strongest impression, for it was Mozart at his best, bringing out in Petrova an impetuous excitement that stirred the audience to its feet at its conclusionLyn Bronson Peninsula Reviews
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Among her artistic gifts, Petrova knows how to portray the beauty of the silence between the notes. The Andante movement proved especially breathtaking.Barbara Rose Shuler Monterey Herald
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Pianist Anna Petrova handled the numerous trills throughout the piece with ease. Her ultra-smooth playing style belied the fact the piano is essentially a percussion instrument...Eugene Chan New York Fine Arts Examiner
No menos relevante fue la interpretación del violinista malagueño Jesús Reina y la pianista búlgara Anna Petrova de la sonata de Janacek. Con una notable conjunción, supieron hacer un análisis sonoro de la obra, destacando en el primer movimiento el tono apasionado y rapsódico de su ejecución. En la Balada, el profundo lirismo con el trataron su discurso, seguido del tercer movimiento, un Allegretto de sombrío diálogo. En el Finale, desarrollaron todos los contrastes y ambientes expresivos que pide este tiempo, dejando la sensación en el oyente que ambos intérpretes se había vaciado en la interpretación de esta abrumadora obra. Ante tanta tensión, nada mejor que terminar el programa con la Suite del ballet 'Cascanueces' de Tchaikovsky en una bien ideada versión para dos pianos. Josu de Solaun y Anna Petrova demostraron cómo se puede trascender en una música tan relajante y sugestiva.JOSÉ ANTONIO CANTÓN El Mundo
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Beyond her considerable technical command, the first and main surprise was her accute interpretative personality, which she showed since the first note...A complete artist...LEVANTE
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...stunning performance at Nelson's Capital Theatre. When completed, an unprecedented standing ovation, amidst loud “Bravo's,” burst loose – before the Chopin/Beethoven concert's intermission! A feat never witnessed before by long standing members of the Nelson Overture Concerts Society.
When Anna Petrova reached the Rondo – Vivace, the last movement, she was simply supreme. Enjoying the advantage of her Eastern European origins and upbringing, she gave expression to Chopin's Mazurka – Polish folk dance ryhtms – as no other. It was impossible to sit still and not be drawn into the piece...Hans Dekkers Nelson Star
When Anna Petrova reached the Rondo – Vivace, the last movement, she was simply supreme. Enjoying the advantage of her Eastern European origins and upbringing, she gave expression to Chopin's Mazurka – Polish folk dance ryhtms – as no other. It was impossible to sit still and not be drawn into the piece...
Calm and assured on the stage, the pianist exuded a deep feeling of having everything under control. It didn’t matter how difficult the works performed were: Anna Petrova seemed to have always a very clear idea of the quality of sound that she was looking for and how to achieve it. Each gesture and type of touch seemed to have been thought out, studied, and interiorized. Thanks to this, she was able to achieve very solid interpretations of the pieces, coherent from beginning to end and with a recognizable personal stamp...Roberto San Juan MUNDOCLASSICO
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La irresistible elegancia de Anna PetrovaMiguel Angel Nepomuceno Diario de Leon
The lush, romantic, rhythmic melodies of Edvard Grieg’s Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor were played with intense feeling and perfect balance by Cecee Pantikian and pianist Anna Petrova...Musical Prelacy
Anna captured the audience in her native Plovdiv with an exquisite recital during the Chamber Music Festival. She played impressively, precise, elegant, mature, memorably....with incredible creative power and spark - as only she can...Maritza, Bulgaria
A su belleza y elegancia, Petrova une ese carisma de identidad que no es otro que su tremenda claridad y transparencia en el fraseo y un cuidado ataque que no da resquicio a la duda o a la superficialidad. Todo está bajo control y todo resulta natural y sincero....Diario de Leon
This young bulgarian pianist, residing in New York, came back to Leon to offer a recital where she exhibited again a solid artistic maturity, that seems to spring both from her technical and intellectual command of the pieces, achieved after an obvious process of their interiorization and assimilation...MUNDOCLASSICO
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