Dobrinka Tabakova

Dobrinka Tabakova (Bulgarian: Добринка Табакова; born 1980, Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian-British composer. Early life and education Dobrinka Tabakova was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, to medical physicists Vassilka and Slavik Tabakov. She won the Jean-Frederic Perrenoud Prize of the 4th International Competition of Music in Vienna when she was 14 years old. She studied at Alleyn’s School London and the Royal Academy of Music in London and graduated from Guildhall School of Music and Drama (GSMD) in London. Afterwards she was awarded a Ph.D. in composition from King’s College, London. She studied composition under Simon Bainbridge, Diana Burrell, Robert Keeley and Andrew Schultz. She has also attended master classes given by John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Alexander Goehr, Olav Anton Thommessen and Iannis Xenakis. Compositional career Dobrinka Tabakova’s “Praise” was sung at St. Paul’s Cathedral to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002. She won the GSMD Lutosławski Composition Prize in 1999 and the Adam Prize of King’s College London in 2007. In 2011 Dobrinka Tabakova was awarded first prize and medal of the Sorel Organization’s choral competition in New York. T