About Us
Bozhana Pavlova was born in Pleven, Bulgaria. From 2003 to 2008 she studied at the National Music School "Ljubomir Pipkov" in Sofia with Prof. Stolina Dobreva. After that she became a student at Conservatory Vienna Private University in the class of Prof. Jorgos Panetsos. In 2012 she began her Master's degree in classical guitar. In addition, Bozhana is studying pedagogics for guitar at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna with Prof. Walter Würdinger.
Bozhana is a laureate of a number of competitions in Bulgaria, Romania, Montenegro, Croatia, Albania, Germany and Italy. In 2014 she won the 2nd prize at Niksic Guitar Festival. In 2013 she won also lots of prizes at International Guitar Competitions: 1st Prize at the International Competition “Giovani Musicisti - Città di Treviso”, Italy for classical guitar and 3rd Prize in the category for Contemporary music, 2nd Prize at Omis Guitar Fest 2013 and 3rd Prize at International Guitar Competition, Tirana 2013. In 2012 she won a special prize "Fernando Sor" for best interpretation of a classical piece in Erwitte, Germany. In the same year she was a finalist at Forum Gitarre Wien. In 2011 she won the 1st prize at the international competition "Young Virtuosos" in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Bozhana has given concerts in Europe and Asia. In addition, she received a grant for high artistic achievements from the Ministery of Culture of Bulgaria and a grant for best results from Conservatory Vienna Private University. In 2014 she was awarded the prestigeous grant ‘STARTStipendium’ for talented yound musicians by the Austrian Ministery for Education, Art and Culture. She attended masterclasses of the great guitarists David Russell, Carlo Marchione, Marcin Dylla, Dale Kavanagh, Olaf Van Gonnissen, Ivo Kaltchev, George Vassilev, Hopkinson Smith, Gerhard Reichenbach and many others.
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Aleksandar Visokomogilski was born in 1987, in Sofia. He took his first guitar lessons from the bulgarian guitarist Ekaterina Vaseva. After graduating high-school he studied pop guitar at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" with Prof. Panayot Panayotov. In 2007 he began his study at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He was in the guitar classes of Peter Legat and Martin Kelner. Aleksandar finished his Bachelor's degree with excellence and since 2012 he has continued his study with master degree. Now he is in the classes of Wolfgang Pointner (electric guitar) and Arnoldo Moreno (acoustic guitar).
Aleksandar has participated in masterclasses of Milcho Leviev, Nelson Faria and others. In his musical career he had concerts in Bulgaria, Austria and China. In 2011 Aleksandar was rewarded a grant for highly talented young musicians from Tokyo Foundation. He is also a laureat of a number of competitions, such as International Guitar Competition "Marin Goleminov" in Kjustendil, Bulgaria and "On the wings of music" in Sofia.
