Anna Mois Levy

Curriculum Vitae

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Port Moody, BC

Canada V3H 1G3

Tel. 604-***-****

Email: abpwtm@r.postjobfree.com

Websites: www.anna-levy.com

www.yarilomusic.com

Education

Academic Degrees and Honors

State Conservatory of Music, Moscow, USSR, Degree Candidate of Arts (Doctor of

Musical Arts, piano, historical musicology), 1990.

State Academy (Conservatory) of Music, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1976-1980, Master of Music,

Bachelor of Music.

Awards

Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland, 6-17 September 1996.

New Music in New Places award, Canadian Music Centre 2005 and 2006

BC Arts Council Project Support and Commissioning Support, December 2006.

BC Arts Council Project Grant for concert of contemporary Bulgarian music, May 2008.

Present and Past Positions

Currently co-artistic director with Jane Hayes of the Yarilo Contemporary Music

Society (established as a not-for-profit society in March 2011. For a roster of the

activities, past and present, please see the website: www.yarilomusic.com)

Currently on faculty as a piano instructor at Place des Arts, Coquitlam, BC

Currently a freelance soloist, researcher, lecturer and teacher and cofounder with

husband (Gregory Myers) of East-West School of Music, 1997 to present.

Co-founder of Yarilo Music Ensemble (piano duo with Jane Hayes), 2001 to

present.

01/1992-06/1993, Assistant Professor of Piano and Accompaniment, State

Academy of Music (Conservatory), Sofia, Bulgaria.

03/1991-06/1993, Instructor of Piano and Accompaniment at the State

Preparatory School of Music, Sofia, Bulgaria.

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01/1980-08/1986, Instructor of Piano and Accompaniment at the State

Preparatory School of Music, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Languages

Native speaker of Bulgarian

English, fluent conversation, reading, writing

Russian, conversation, reading, writing

French, some conversation, reading writing

Performances, Broadcasts and Commissions

2011 The 2011 Yarilo Concert Series:

May 29 - F r Nikolai Time and Again, Giya Kancheli - Time and

Again for violin & piano (Marc Destrub, violin, Jane Hayes) Korndorf s

Lullaby for 2 pianos (Jane Hayes, Anna Levy), Triptych for cello & piano (Ariel

Barnes, cello, Anna Levy), Morlock, Half-Light and Somnolent Rains (Jane

Hayes, Anna Levy).

June 6 Path to Simplicity, Anna Levy, Jane Hayes, pianos, Kathryn

Cernauskas, flute, & Johanna Hauser, clarinet.

July 10, The Classics 2 piano music by Brahms, Lutoslawski & Rachmaninoff

(Jane Hayes, Anna Levy).

2012 - The 2012 Concert Series:

May 10 Contemplating after Easter Ritual and Prayer - Rachmaninoff,

Easter from Suite No. 1 for two pianos (with Jane Hayes), Julia Tsenova,

Prayer for the Holy Cross, Prayer for a Sigh (piano solo), Shopp Dances (with

Jane Hayes), Colin MacDonald, Firewalk for two pianos (world premiere

commission, with Jane Hayes)

July 8 Alexander Scriabin/Leonid Sabaneyev, Prometheus and The

Prefatory Act for two pianos (with Jane Hayes) in collaboration with Methodica

Acting Studio and narrator David Skulski.

Performance (lecture-recital in collaboration with Gregory Myers), Bulgaria s Musical

Unknown . Joint meeting of the Bulgarian Studies Association and the Bulgarian

Academy of Sciences, May 31 June 2, 2012, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.

Performance (lecture-recital in collaboration with Gregory Myers) November 11, 2011,

Ritual & Narrative in the Music of Post-Modern Eastern Europe: A Program of

Contemporary Bulgarian & Russian Piano Music. Musicology Colloquium Series,

Princeton Department of Music, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

Performance March 31, 2011, Forgotten Songs: Unknown Music from a Little Known

Land . A program of contemporary Bulgarian piano music. Consulate of the Republic of

Bulgaria, New York City.

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Performance May 8, 2010, at Place des Arts, in a program entitled, Path to Simplicity

A Concert in Honour of Lepo Sumera, 1950-2000, marking years since the birth and 10

years since the death of the Estonian composer, Lepo Sumera. Supported by the

Vancouver Estonian Community. Featuring Anna Levy and Jane Hayes, piano, Kathryn

Cernauskas, flute, and Johanna Hauser, clarinet.

Performance June 20, 2009, Prometheus Master of Fire and Cosmos. Anna Levy with the

Yarilo Music Ensemble (Jane Hayes, piano and Kathryn Cernauskas, flute). Christ

Church Cathedral, Vancouver, B.C.

Performance April 17, 2009, with the Turning Point Ensemble. Music of Thomas Ad s

and Charles Ives. The Chan Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.

Performance April 16, 2009. Anna Levy, piano with Marc Destrub, violin. Music for

violin and piano by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. The Silk Purse, West Vancouver, B.C.

Performance May 31, 2008, Performance Hot Chili Peppers: Contemporary Bulgarian

Music. Anna Levy with the Yarilo Music Ensemble (Jane Hayes, piano, Heather Pawsey,

Soprano, Marc Destrub, violin, Kathryn Cernauskas, flute, and Daniel Tones,

percussion). Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, B.C.

Performance June 30, 2007, Anna Levy and Jane Hayes, pianos. Canada Day

Celebration. Hall of the Union of Composers, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Performance June 2, 2007: Festival of Contemporary Music, Benaroya Hall, Seattle,

Washington, program of contemporary Bulgarian music for solo piano.

Performance and Commission January 23, 2007: The Remarkable Legacy of Nikolai

Korndorf (on the occasion of his 60th birthday), the Yarilo Music Ensemble with guests

(Jane Hayes, Marc Destrub, violin, and Peggy Lee, violoncello). Premiere of

commissioned work, Half-Light, Somnolent Rains for two pianos by Jocelyn Morlock

for the Yarilo Music Ensemble, BC Arts Council commission. University British

Columbia School of Music Recital Hall.

Performance November 23, 2006: Recital of solo Piano Music of Michael Conway Baker

and Frank Levin. Recording forthcoming. Silk Purse Community Centre, West

Vancouver, BC.

Performance December 9, 2006: New Music in New Places, Vancouver Public Library.

Yarilo Music Ensemble (Anna Levy and Jane Hayes), Canadian music for two pianos.

Performance March 2006: New Music in New Places concert at the Vancouver Golf Club

with music by Nikolai Korndorf, David Duke, Frank Levin, Roger Matton, Ann

Southam, and Clairmont Pepin.

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Performance and Commission, December 2, 2005: Percussion Power presented by the

Yarilo Music Ensemble with guests percussionists Sal Ferreras and Vern Griffiths in a

program of Bartok (Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion), Lutoslawski (Paganini

Variations for Two Pianos), and world premiere of commissioned work by Canadian

composer Roussi Tarmakov, Wine, Candlelight, and Hot Chili Peppers for two pianos

and percussion, a commission from the CBC and the Yarilo Music Ensemble. Broadcast

on CBC s Westcoast Performance.

Performance May 27, 2005: Celestial and Terrestrial presented by the Yarilo Music

Ensemble, in addition to music by Korndorf ( Lullaby and Triptych), performed

Halcyon for cello and piano, and Quoi for piano and percussion by Canadian

composers Jocelyn Morlock, and Roger Matton Dance Brasilienne for two pianos.

CBC Studio 1, Vancouver. Broadcast on CBC s Westcoast Performance, and Two New

Hours.

Performance May 9, 2004: Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances for two pianos (with

Jane Hayes, second piano), Canzone Triste for solo harp (with Rita Costanzi, harp),

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, B.C.

Performance May 30, 2003: Remembering Nikolai . Lullaby for two pianos (Anna

Levy, Jane Hayes), world premiere of Korndorf s Triptych for Cello and Piano (Anna

Levy with Ariel Barnes, cello), Fratres of Arvo P rt (with Nancy DiNovo, violin).

Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, B.C.

Performance January 17, 2002: Soviet Shadows: From Darkness to Light, benefit

concert given in memory of Nikolai Korndorf presented at the Shadbolt Centre for the

Arts, Burnaby ($600.00 was raised to benefit the family through the Canadian Music

Centre), B.C. The concert program was repeated at Simon Fraser University, Capilano

College, Kwantlen College, and in 2004 at the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana.

Performer Anna Levy, solo piano.

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Lecture Demonstrations

Egos and Legos: The Musical Iconography of Arvo P rt and Sir John Tavener. Noon-

Hour lecture (Co-presented with Gregory Myers), piano, presented at Kwantlen

University College, Langley, BC, January 24, 2001.

Piano Sonata No. 1 of Alfred Schnittke, Kwantlen University College, April 6, 2000 (Co-

presented with Gregory Myers).

Russia s Silver Age: The Piano Music of Medtner, Myaskovsky and Scriabin. Nordic

House, Reykjavik, Iceland, Sunday, 8 September 1996. (Lecture-Recital (Co-

presented with Gregory Myers).

Alfred Schnittke and Collective Memory: The Piano Sonata No. 1. Pacific-

Northwest Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Douglas

College, New Westminster, B.C., April 4-6, 1997. (Lecture-Performance Co-

presented with Gregory Myers).

CD Release

Nikolai Korndorf In memoriam (2003) distributed through the Canadian Music Centre.

Research Contributions

Doctoral Dissertation:

Writing as Anna Vecheva: Russko-bolgarskie muzykal nye vzaimosviazi na primere

fortepiannogo kontserta [Russo-Buglarian Musical Correspondences on the Basis

of the Piano Concerto]. Submitted to the Department of Soviet Music at the State

Conservatory of Music, P. I. Tchaikovsky, Moscow, U.S.S.R., December 1990.

Dictionary Entries

Arnaoudov, Georgi; Dragostinov, Stefan; Bentsion, Eliezar; Iliev, Konstantin;

Kazandzhiev,Vasil; Minchev, Georgi; Nikolov, Lazar; Spassov, Ivan;

Tarmakov, Rusi; Taskov, Krasimir; Tutev, Georgi. for New Grove

Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Co-presented with Gregory Myers.

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Articles and Interviews

Konstantin, ili Prekusnatiiat Polet. [ Konstantin, or the Broken Flight. ] in

Demokratsiia. 9 March, No. 55 (1247), 1994, 13.

Bezpametnost: Po povod godinishninata ot smurtta na Konstantin Iliev. [ Amnesia: On

the Occasion of the Anniversary of the Death of Konstantin Iliev.] in Kultura 5,

No. 16, 16 April, 1993.

Motsart bez Motsart. [[Mozart without Mozart. ] in Kultura 4, No. 25, 18 June,

1993.

Problema Teatral nosti v Sovetskom i Bolgarskom Fortepiannom Kontserte/ Na

Pervogo Fortepiannogo Kontserta D. Shostakovicha i Divertimento-Kontsertante

A. Taneva. [The Problem of Theatricality in the Soviet and Bulgarian Piano

Concerto on the Basis of the First Piano Concerto of D. Shostakovich and the

Divertimento-Concertante of A. Tanev.] Journal of Scientific Works and Musical

Criticism of the Moscow State Conservatory of Music, 1990-1991.

Writing as Anna Vecheva, Kompozitor ili Ekstrasens. [ Composer or Psychic. ]

Interview with composer Karlheinz Stockhausen on the occasion of his visit to

Moscow, 23-27 March 1990. Bulgarska Muzika 3, Year XLI, (October 1990),

47-49.

Writing as Anna Vecheva, Moskovska Esen 89. [ Moscow Autumn 89. ] Bulgarska

Muzika 3, Year XLI, April, 58-59.

Obshchi Zakonomernosti v Razvitiet na Bulgarskiia i Suvetskiia Klaviren Kontsert prez

60-te i 70-te godini. [ The General Regularity in the Development of the

Bulgarian and Soviet Piano Concerto in the 60s and 70s. ] Abstract of a Paper of

the Tenth National Scientific Conference, Sofia, Bulgarian State Academy of

Music, 1990, 25-27.

Vzaimodeiistvie Zapadnykh i Vostochnykh Traditsii v Stilistike Fortepiannogo

Kontserte/Russko-Bulgarskie Muzykal nye Sviazi. [ The Interactions of

Western and Eastern Traditions in the Stylistics of the Piano Concerto/Russian

and Bulgarian Musical Connections. ] Abstract of the paper presented for the

All-Union Scientific Conference, Actual Problems of the Musical Cultures of

Eastern Peoples, Tashkent, 17-21 October, 1989, 29-31.

Colloquia and Papers Presented

A Dialogue Unrealized: Konstantin Iliev s 1968 Fragmenti and the Emergence of

Bulgaria s Modern Musical Voice. Paper presented at the Pacific Northwest

Chapter of the American Musicological Society April 11-13, 2008, University of

British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada (co-presented with Gregory Myers).

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Who Was Konstantin Iliev? Special Session of the Annual Pacific Northwest

University Graduate Colloquium at the University of British Columbia School of

Music, 3 October 1993 (Co-presented with Gregory Myers), Vancouver, B.C.

The Birth of Bulgarian Musical Modernism ( Konstantin Iliev: Bulgaria s Musical

Tragedy ) at the Reykjavik College of Music, Reykjavik, Iceland, Wednesday 11

September 1996. (Co-presented with Gregory Myers)

Ivan Spassov and Le Myst re des Voix Bulgares. Pacific Northwest Chapter Meeting

of the American Musicological Society, University of Washington, Seattle,

Washington, 9-11 February 1996. (Co-presented with Gregory Myers)

Konstantin Iliev, Lazar Nikolov and the Birth-Pains of Bulgarian Musical Modernism.

Pacific Northwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, University of

Victoria, 6-8 April 1994. (Co-presented with Gregory Myers)

Editions

Konstantin Iliev. Concerto grosso for Strings, Percussion and Piano. Gregory Myers,

Editor-in-Chief. Port Moody, BC: Vox Bulgarica Music Publishers in collaboration with

the State Academy of Music, Melania Press, Sofia, Bulgaria, forthcoming Fall 2011.

Konstantin Iliev. Symphony No. 2 for Concert Band (instrumental score). Gregory Myers,

Editor-in-Chief. Port Moody, BC: Vox Bulgarica Music Publishers in collaboration with

the State Academy of Music, Melania Press, Sofia, Bulgaria. September 2011.

Konstantin Iliev. Fragmenti (facsimile edition, orchestral score) Gregory Myers, Editor-

in-Chief. Port Moody, BC: Vox Bulgarica Music Publishers, Sofia: Melania Press, May

2008.

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