Dobrinka Tabakova (b.1980)

The prize-winning composer, Dobrinka Tabakova (b. 1980, Plovdiv, Bulgaria), has lived in London since 1991, graduating from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and obtaining a PhD from King’s College London. Her music has featured in films, dance and has been programmed at festivals across Europe and the US.

Tabakova has been resident composer at the Davos Summer Festival in Switzerland and Truro Cathedral, Cornwall (UK), as well as with the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Swan (Stratford, UK). Tabakova has been commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, BBC Radio 3 and the European Broadcasting Union.

Her debut profile album String Paths was nominated for a GRAMMY in 2014. In 2017 she was appointed composer-in-residence with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Tabakova’s second album, devoted to her choral music and performed by the Truro Cathedral Choir with the BBC Concert Orchestra, received a Gramophone Critics’ Choice (2019). In 2021, Dobrinka Tabakova completed her orchestral Earth Suite for the BBC Concert Orchestra and the violin concerto The Patience of Trees for the Manchester International Festival. In 2022, she was named the Hallé Orchestra’s artist in association. An album of her orchestral works, recorded by the Hallé Orchestra was released in October 2023.

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