| Dual Bulgarian - British Nationality - U.K. Based |
 One of only a handful of musicians worldwide to have been invited by the Trustees to play in the Yvonne Lefébure Auditorium at the Claude Debussy House & Museum, St. Germain-en-Laye, Paris on the Anniversary of the Composer's birth. |
Valentina has also given recital performances for The Rachmaninoff Society's AGM (1999, 2005, & 2009)
"You played beautifully" - Natalie Wanamaker-Javier (Great Grand Daughter of Sergei Rachmaninov)
She was invited back for an unprecedented 3rd time in 2008; but declined in favour of playing with partner Venera Bojkova, as 'Va i Ve', a 2 piano duet, for their September 2009 AGM. |
Solo CD, of previously unrecorded works by Joachim Raff (1822-1882), the first ever CD devoted exclusively to Raff's piano music, is available, completely re-mastered, on-line from Cameo Classics.
Awarded   out of 5 by The Raff Society.
"... grand technique and plays brilliantly. ..recording is very wide range and well placed. The notes are excellent" -
Carl Bauman - American Record Guide - May/June 2003.
"She is a fluent pianist, and does a fine job .." - Paul Turok of Turok's Choice, N.Y., U.S.A., September 2003. |
By invitation, has given a recital at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Sq. (London), in their 'Pianists of the World' series. |
| Has appeared in recital at Chichester Cathedral 8 times (noted for it's quality of programming & Performances/Performers) |
Valentina is featured in a soon to be released DVD "Forbidden Music" about the suppression of German-Jewish 'Romantic era' composers during the late 19th and 20th Centuries, and whose works are now being rediscovered. |
| New Solo CD available now: World Premier recordings of Piano Works of Zygmunt Noskowski (1846-1909) - recorded for leading Polish label Acte Préalable |
| By invitation, Valentina has performed (30th May 2008) works by Polish Romantic era composer Zygmunt Noskowski at The Warsaw Music Society (WTM), Poland, where Noskowski was himself Director - 120 years ago! |
Valentina performed, & recorded for CD, the première public performance (since the composer's death), of Salomon Jadassohn's 'Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1, op 89 in C minor', with The Karelia State Philharmonic Orchestra (Musical Director Marius Stravinsky) in Russia, in December 2008.
Now available - Cameo-Classics CC9026CD |
On 11th November (Remembrance Day) 2010, she appeared as Guest Soloist with the Orion Symphony Orchestra (Conductor: Toby Purser) at London’s Cadogan Hall for the first public performance in over 75 years of Dorothy Howell’s Piano Concerto in D minor. |
