Ana Gaceva, Piano

Program

Jana Andreevska                                    Study for Piano

Ilija Pejovski                                                Once

Mihailo Trandafilovski                        Ripple Effect

Goce Kolarovski                                    Preludio Etude

Michael A. Bakrnchev                         Variations for Piano

“5 Rudimentary Elements to Embellish The Individual”

Francis Poulenc                                    Les Soirées de Nazelles – Suite pour Piano

Préambule

Variations

1. I. Le comble de la distinction
2. Le cœur sur la main
3. La désinvolture et la discrétion
4. La suite dans les idées
5. V. Le charme enjôleur
6. VI. Le contentement de soi
7. VII. Le gout du malheur
8. VIII. L’alerte vieillesse

Cadence

Final

Alberto E. Ginastera                                    Danzas Argentinas

CURRICULUM VITAE

ANA GACEVA

Reviews:

…This extraordinary pianist with an international career gave another brilliant performance with our National Orchestra… Ana Gaceva’s strong musical charisma cannot but touch the audience with her perfectly clear interpretation…

She posses an Impressive sense for music coloring and dynamics, mixed with perfect lightness in the expression.

(Makedonsko Radio, 2011)

…Ana Gaceva has unified her own gracefulness with her technical precision up to perfection!  …She has an individual and recognizable style. She is a profound and mature artist with an impressive technique and virtuosity… Gaceva presented the subtle contents and energy of the work in its true light-musically clear, with beautiful tone and suggestive expression …

(Utrinski vesnik, 2008)

… Ana Gaceva is, without any doubt an excellent technician, whose virtuous qualities spontaneously spring out during the concert. Once again, we have to underline Gaceva’s musical sensibility… she has incredible skills to create a beautiful tone and phrase…

…Music “speaks” trough her hands!

(Dnevnik, 2006)

CURRICULUM VITAE

Ana Gaceva (1978, Skopje, Macedonia) graduated in Piano Performance as the best student of the Faculty of Music of Saints Cyril and Methodius University (Skopje) in 2000. She earned her Master degree at the same Faculty in 2004 in the class of Prof. Stela Sleanska. Ana Gaceva successfully completed in 1996 the renowned Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, in Prof. Acqilles Delle Vigne’s class.

From 1999 to 2002 Ana Gaceva studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris, under the mentorship of world famous professors Ramzi Yassa and Chantal Debuchy, earning her Diplome Superieur as well as the Diplome de Concertiste, the highest Postgraduate Diploma in Performance. During her time in Paris, she also studied with Monique Deschaussees, one of the most prominent assistants of the most legendary pianist and Professor Alfred Cortot.

In 2008, Ana Gaceva completed the first PhD on piano performance in Macedonia, in the class of Prof. Emeritus Simon Young (Trinity College of Music, London, UK) and Prof. Dimitrije Buzarovski (Faculty of Music, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia).

Since 2004 Ana Gaceva works as permanent piano professor. First at the Faculty of Music of the Tetovo University and then, since 2010, at the Faculty of Music of Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. In 2005, she won a European Union Tempus Mobility grant and had a short stay as visiting professor at the Trinity College of Music (London, UK).

In 2008, Ana Gaceva published her first book titled “Piano Techniques in Concerts from world renowned Composers-Pianists”.

Ana Gaceva is considered as one of the most prominent piano soloists in Macedonia. She performed with orchestras such as: the Macedonian National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Youth International Chamber Orchestra, the Russian Orchestra “Musica Viva”, the Orchestra of Modern Music “Sveta Sofija”, at renowned festivals in Macedonia: Ohrid Summer Festival, Skopje Summer Festival, Days of Macedonian music, Autumnal music festivities, Stip Summer Festival as well as at international festivals abroad: Piranske Glazbene Veceri (Slovenia), Les Concerts de Midi & Demi (France), Zagreb Summer Evenings (Croatia), Hvar Summer Festival and Makarska Summer Festival (Croatia) etc.

Gaceva played in prominent concert halls and institutions as a soloist and chamber musician, in Paris, Kiev, Zagreb, Vienna, Ljubljana, Portoroz, Logatec, Dresden, Hvar, Salzburg, Sofia, Belgrade, Plovdiv etc… She has recorded music for the Macedonian National Radio and Television Skopje, National television of Croatia and Television of Slovenia.

Gaceva is a member of the Association of Music Artists of Macedonia since 2000. She was a member of the managing boards of the Macedonian National Philharmonic Orchestra 2007-2011) and the Culture and Information Center of Skopje (2002-2006).