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Va i Ve - Valentina Seferinova
and Venera Bojkova's lives have been entwined for quite some
time. Both are piano performance and theory graduates of the same
National Academy of Music, Sofia; both studied with Bulgaria’s foremost
piano professor, Dr. L Dinolov.
Their careers as soloists and Chamber Music
performers developed early, and as a piano duet their first performances
together were as students. The programmes often comprised their Professor’s
successful transcriptions of popular works.
Fate has continued to entwine their lives by
decreeing that both, quite independently, should now be settled in the UK.
Both still follow separate solo careers, but
you can imagine the sheer fun for them both to also perform as a duet again.
In the autumn of 1999 they made their first
tour in UK as a duet. Their programme included Slavic music by Rachmaninov,
Prokofiev, and Dvořák and was presented in Portsmouth, Bognor Regis, London,
and Durham.
During 2000 they were together again on tour
- featuring a programme of British, Bulgarian, and Russian composers - a
main stay of their repertoire. They also attended Master Classes with
Prof. Bernard Roberts at H.I.S.S., UK.
In December 2001 they appeared at the National
Palace of Culture, Sofia in front of their life time mentor, Prof. Dr. Lubomir
Dinolov and other peers; their programme of Rachmaninov (Suite for Two
Pianos Opus 17), Benjamin Britten (Opus 23 Nos. 1 and
2 - Introduction and Rondo alla Burlesca, and Mazurka Elegiaca),
Ferencz Liszt (Variations on a Theme of Paganini - arranged by Dinolov),
and a short piece by Pancho Vladigerov (Horo Staccato) was received
with acclaim. A subsequent studio recording of this programme is now
available on CD (see 'Recordings'
and 'CD
Reviews' section of this web site).
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