Overview
Renowned pianist Romeo Smilkov will be performing at Technopolis 20 in Paphos on Thursday.
His recital will feature works by JS Bach, J Haydn, F Liszt, S Rachmaninov, Nikolay Stoykov, and he will also perform the piece ‘A Prayer’ by Dimiter Nenov.
The event will be starting at 20:30 and entrance is €12 and €7 for students.
Smilkov is a graduate of the National Music Academy “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” in Sofia, where he studied piano with Prof. Luba Encheva and Prof. Milena Mollova. Among his postgraduate studies was a master class with Prof. Vera Gornostaeva (Moscow) at the Varna Festival in Bulgaria.
He counts numerous international and national prizes such as 1st Prize of the Salerno Piano Competition in Italy (1979); 2nd Prize of the Razgrad Piano Competition, Bulgaria (1984) and 3rd Prize of the Liszt-Bartok Competition (1989), organized by The Hungarian Cultural Center in Sofia. In 2011, he received the Special Prize “Medeniya Tchan” of the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts, Plovdiv and in 2018 the “Golden Muse” by the Russian Cultural Center in Sofia.
