Roxana Bajdechi 

   Romanian pianist Roxana Bajdechi has appeared as a soloist as well as a chamber musician in Europe, Asia, and the United States of America.

    Ms. Bajdechi's pianistic skills were discovered early on, when, at the age of eight, she was awarded the First Prize at the Mozart Piano Competition in Constanza (Romania). The following years were to bring many other awards and prizes. Ms. Bajdechi is now the proud recepient of more than fifteen such distinctions from Romania, Italy, Puerto Rico and the USA, including the “Valentino Bucchi” Prize in Rome, and the “Award of the Association of Music Critics of Romania”. Ms Bajdechi is a member by invitation of the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society in the Unites States, and of the Henry Coanda Foundation for the Extraordinarily Gifted in Romania.

     Ms. Bajdechi’s solo engagements have included collaborations with important orchestras and ensembles. In Japan she toured as a soloist with the Mozart Virtuosi Orchestra, performing at the Metropolitan Art Space in Tokyo, the Kytara Hall in Sapporo, and the Civic Hall in Asahikawa. She was also featured as a soloist with other orchestras such as the Puerto Rico Chamber Orchestra, the Black Sea Philharmonic, the Lyceum Strings of Bucharest, and the Boston Conservatory orchestra, performing a wide range of concerto repertoire.

     As a recital pianist and a very active chamber musician, with appearances ranging from duo, trio, quartet, to quintet repertoire, Ms. Bajdechi has performed in numerous concert venues such as the Glinka Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg (Russia), the Kaye Playhouse in New York (USA), the Okinawa Convention Center in Okinawa (Japan), the Atheneum Hall and the National Radio Hall in Bucharest (Romania), the Santa Cristina Festival Hall (Spain). An enthusiastic supporter of contemporary music, Ms. Bajdechi has appeared as a guest performer with new music ensembles such as the Ludovico Ensemble, and the Ibis Camarata. Other accomplishments include numerous live appearances on the Romanian National Radio and Television, as well as on RadioTre Suite in Rome, Italy. In Boston, she appears regularly in performances at Seully Hall and Steinert Hall.

     In 2011, Ms. Bajdechi will be concertizing in Italy, Romania, the USA, and Japan, where she will be returning for her 5th  concert tour.

    Along the years, Ms. Bajdechi benefited from wonderful guidance from Olga Szel and Delia Pavlovici (in Romania),Michael Lewin and Marina Magazinnik (in the US). In Fall 2001, she entered the Boston Conservatory with a Full Scholarship, where, besides winning the 2004 Concerto Competition, and the Piano Honors Competition for three consecutive years, she was awarded the Alfred Lee Scholarship, and the 2005 and 2006 Benjamin Kasser Scholarship. Ms. Bajdechi holds a Bachelor of Music Degree (Magna cum Laude 2004) and a Master’s Degree (2006) in Piano Performance.

Edit Fazakas

    Edit Fazakas has been praised by critics for displaying all of the “ingredients necessary to a musician: wild temperament, spiritual depth and playfulness”; “she has the ability to completely metamorphose accordingly to the style and character that her pieces require.” She had been acclaimed by the versatile composer and pianist Fazil Say for performances of his own works. Ms. Fazakas has performed in important venues across Europe (Austria, Germany-including the 2000 Hannover World Exhibition-Italy, France, Belgium, United Kingdom), in Japan and the USA. Her most recent appearances include Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with the Oberlin Conservatory Orchestra and Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini with the Boston Conservatory Orchestra. Past season’s engagements include a recital in Lima, Peru and Rachmaninov’ s Third Piano concerto with the Newton Symphony. In Romania, her native country, she has performed in the George Enescu International Music Festival and has made special recordings for the National Radio and Television. Recently, she has been invited to give a well received recital at the Romanian George Enescu Philharmonic and has been immediately reengaged. This year, amongst numerous recitals, of which several dedicated to Liszt’s Bicentennial celebrations, she performed the Rachmaninov Third Piano Concerto for a second time with the Boston University Orchestra, under the baton of Konstantin Dobroykov. She has been heard in master classes with some of today’s most sought-after musicians, amongst which Piotr Paleczny, John O’Conor, John Perry, Choong Mo Kang. Ms. Fazakas is currently pursuing doctoral studies at Boston University, guided by world-renowned pianist Michael Lewin. After being a piano instructor at the Oberlin Conservatory and the Ip Piano School in Boston, she is currently on the piano faculty at the Page Music School and the Youth and Muse Boston International Music Festival.  

Tania Stavreva

    Described by the New York critics as "exceptional", "magnificent", "bold" and "dynamic", Bulgarian pianist Tania Stavreva made her New York Recital Debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in April 2009, as part of the Artists International’s 36 Special Presentation Winners Series.

    This season, Tania Stavreva appeared at major venues including Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Williams, Brown and Seully Halls in Boston, Kosciuszko Foundation Auditorium, Lincoln Center’s Paul Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Yamaha Artists Services Piano Salon, Steinway Hall, Tenri Cultural Institute, Roulette, the Bulgarian Consulate General and the CSV Cultural Center in New York where she was featured on NY1 News by NBC reporter Asa Aarons. Recent recital performances include appearances at Steinert Hall, Boston Public Library, Boston Symphony’s Higginson Hall, Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University, Goethe Institute-Boston,  United University Church in Los Angeles, National Ethnographic Museum-Plovdiv, Bulgaria and “Sala dei Notari” Perugia, Italy. In August 2007, Tania appeared as soloist with Sinfonia Perugina, conductor Maestro Enrico Marconi at Cathedral San Lorenzo Perugia. Other orchestral experiences include performances with the Boston Conservatory Symphony Orchestra at Sanders Theater, Harvard University under the baton of Maestro Bruce Hangen. Invited by Amanda Palmer from the internationally-acclaimed band The Dresden Dolls, Tania is one of the first pianists of her generation to perform modern classical music at such rock club venues as the Webster Hall in New York and the Paradise Rock Club in Boston.

    In addition to her recent award from the Artists International Auditions in New York, Tania was awarded the "Sarkis Baltaian" Award in recognition of her "outstanding artistic achievements and high concert activity during the 2002-2003 concert seasons". She was also the winner of numerous piano competitions among which are the 2010 Bradshow & Buono International Piano Competition in New York, National "Franz Schubert" Piano Competition 2001 in Russe, Bulgaria and the "Dobrin Petkov" Young Pianists Competition -Plovdiv, 1996 where she also received the "special prize for best virtuoso performance". In 1997, the Mayor of Haskovo, Bulgaria, Atans Vasilev, awarded Tania the Medal "Nedialka Simeonova" for "enriching the musical art and culture in our town Haskovo." She was featured on a live national TV and radio broadcast performing solo piano works by the acclaimed Bulgarian composer Alexander Tanev.

    Tania Stavreva appeared in numerous music festivals among which are the International Keyboard Institute & Festival in New York, New England Conservatory's Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance, Pianofest in the Hamptons, Music Fest Perugia in Italy, XXXIII Musical Days "Nedialka Simeonova", and the Varna Summer International Music Festival in Bulgaria. She has worked with a multitude of renowned musicians including Arie Vardi, Jerome Lowenthal, Martin Canin, Daniel Pollack, David Dubal, John Perry, William-Grant Nabore, Paul Schenly, Jerome Rose, Stephen Drury, Luiz de Moura Castro, Boris Bloch, Frank Levy, Steven Mayer, Oxana Yablonskaya, HaeSun Paik, Anton Dikov.

    Born in Bulgaria, Tania Stavreva started to play the piano at the age of four and gave her first solo recital at the age of five in her native country of Bulgaria. She graduated from National Music School "Dobrin Petkov" in Plovdiv as a Piano Performance Major in May 2003 with high distinction in both academics and performance. Her early teachers included Greta Anastasova, Rositsa Ivancheva and Krassimir Gatev. She earned her Bachelor of Music Degree from the Boston Conservatory where she was a full scholarship student of Michael Lewin. While at the Conservatory, she distinguished herself by winning the Chamber Music Honors Competition in 2005, the Alfred Lee Piano Scholarship Competition in 2006 and the Piano Honors Competition in 2007. A member of the National Music Honor Society Pi Kappa Lambda, Tania is a visiting piano faculty at the Page Music Lesson Center in Boston, and a faculty of the Boston International Summer Music Festival "Youth and Muse." She is also on the piano faculty of the Piano School of New York City.