All About Boriana

Boriana Savova is a versatile performer excelling as a pianist, vocalist, accompanist, conductor, and teacher. She received her M.M. at the Academy for Music, Dance, and Visual Arts in Plovdiv, Bulgaria where she majored in Piano Performance and Music Education. In 1995 Mrs. Savova relocated to New York City where she developed her own teaching studio coaching students in piano, music theory, and voice of all levels. Along with her active teaching career in New York City, Mrs. Savova collaborated as a pianist and sang with the New York Choral Society in major works such as Mahler’s 8th Symphony and also performed as a soloist in numerous recitals at the Tenri Cultural Institute with the Leschetizky Association. While in New York, Mrs. Savova also continued her vocal studies and collaborated with Valentin Peytchinov and Stefka Evstatieva.
In 2006, Mrs. Savova moved to Dallas, Texas where she continued her private coaching, and in 2008 she became an Adjunct Professor at Dallas College, where she is currently teaching piano and accompanying. Students of Mrs. Savova have graduated from prominent music schools like Juilliard School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, University of North Texas, Texas Christian University, Dallas Baptist University, and many others.
Despite her busy teaching schedule, Mrs. Savova continues her performing both as a soloist and collaborative musician. Mrs. Savova has performed with The Flower Mound Symphony, The Richland String Orchestra, and the Garland Chorale.
Mrs. Savova is also actively performing in Europe as part of the Dallas-Versailles Duo alongside Prof. Francis Vidil of the Versailles Conservatory in France. Their partnership goes back to when they first began to collaborate in 2013 at the “Ronde Des Orgues” in Paris where Mrs. Savova performed both as a pianist and vocalist in the same performance, something she does regularly. The program for that event included Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor for four hands piano, Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, and The Wesendonk Lieder cycle by Wagner. After this first collaboration, the Duo has been performing regularly both in France and the United States.
In 2014 Mrs. Savova founded the Classical Solo and Chamber Concert Series at the Baruch HaShem Messianic Synagogue in Dallas. Since the beginning of the series, Mrs. Savova has done numerous concerts at the synagogue in collaboration with local and international guest musicians. The concert series are admission-free as the goal of the concerts is to bring a high level of musicianship to the community and a way to bring people of diverse backgrounds together. Another very important aspect of the concerts is to honor and acknowledge the Jewish community in Dallas, thus commemorating the day of Remembrance of the Holocaust with music composed by Jewish composers like Achron, Klein, Vladigerov, Kreisler, and others. In 2017 Mrs. Savova traveled to Israel and there she performed for Holocaust survivors several concerts along with her son Philip Savov.
In 2020 one of the featured performances in the series was Rachmaninov’s Sonata for Cello and Piano op.19 and Piazzolla’s “Le Grand Tango” and “Libertango” in collaboration with cellist Kourtney Newton.
In addition, being a versatile musician like Boriana Savova enriched and expanded her repertoire beyond the well-established classical music literature as she often ventured into new contemporary compositions some of which included the premiere of the Double Piano Piece, Violin Sonata and Piano Quartet by Michael Clay.