Mariana Popova
Piano
At an early age, pianist Mariana Popova’s strong interest in musical dialogue led to her passionate devotion to the fields of piano chamber music and lied accompaniment. Throughout her concert career, she has increasingly linked both aspects and has been one of the first to teach a training class in Vocal Chamber Music at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater (since 2017).
Mariana Popova's concerts have taken her to almost all European countries, Asia, and the USA. She has received invitations to festivals such as the Summit Music Festival in New York, the Aarhus New Music for Strings Festival (Denmark), the Varna Summer (Bulgaria), the Festival des Heures Musicales de Biot (France), the Castello Festival (Spain), the Heidelberger Frühling Festival, and the Schwetzinger SWR Festival.
As a lied accompanist, she has won prizes at the Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon, France, the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria, and the Manhattan International Music Competition in New York, and in 2010 she performed her first recital series, dedicated to the major works of Clara and Robert Schumann.
She has made numerous lied recordings, most recently the CD album Spektrum in 2019 with the Chinese soprano Lini Gong featuring works from the contemporary lied repertoire. Together with the ballet company of John Neumeier, she performed Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes, and with the NDR Vokal ensemble she made her debut in 2021 at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg (ARTE live stream).
Picture: Neda Navaee
The artist's homepage: 
https://www.mariana-popova.de/
At an early age, pianist Mariana Popova’s strong interest in musical dialogue led to her passionate devotion to the fields of piano chamber music and lied accompaniment. Throughout her concert career, she has increasingly linked both aspects and has been one of the first to teach a training class in Vocal Chamber Music at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater (since 2017).
Mariana Popova's concerts have taken her to almost all European countries, Asia, and the USA. She has received invitations to festivals such as the Summit Music Festival in New York, the Aarhus New Music for Strings Festival (Denmark), the Varna Summer (Bulgaria), the Festival des Heures Musicales de Biot (France), the Castello Festival (Spain), the Heidelberger Frühling Festival, and the Schwetzinger SWR Festival.
As a lied accompanist, she has won prizes at the Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Lyon, France, the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria, and the Manhattan International Music Competition in New York, and in 2010 she performed her first recital series, dedicated to the major works of Clara and Robert Schumann.
She has made numerous lied recordings, most recently the CD album Spektrum in 2019 with the Chinese soprano Lini Gong featuring works from the contemporary lied repertoire. Together with the ballet company of John Neumeier, she performed Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes, and with the NDR Vokal ensemble she made her debut in 2021 at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg (ARTE live stream).
Picture: Neda Navaee
The artist's homepage: https://www.mariana-popova.de/
CDs released by GENUIN
with Mariana Popova