BORIANA SAVOVA is a versatile performer excelling as a pianist, vocalist, accompanist, conductor and a 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 her active teaching carrier in New York City, Mrs.Savova collaborated as a pianist and sang with the New York Choral Society in major works 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 Richland 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 on a regular basis. 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 guests musicians. The concert series are admission free as the goal of the concerts is to bring high level of musicianship to the community and a way to bring people of diverse background 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 ventures into new contemporary compositions some of which included the premiere of the Double Piano Piece, Violin Sonata and Piano Quartet by Michael Clay.

Hungarian cellist Zoltán Csikós  started playing cello at the age of nine. After completing basic music studies, he graduated from the Music High School Isidor Bajić. While still in high school, he was accepted into the preparatory class for gifted young students of the Academy of Music in Novi Sad in the class of Imre Kalman. As a cello student, he has participated in numerous competitions and master classes and has won various awards in solo playing, and as a member of a piano trio (1st prize in cello at the Festival of Music Schools of Serbia, 2nd prize at the National Competition of Cello in Belgrade in 2003, and prizes as a long-time member of a piano trio and string quartet). During his studies he attended master classes with Arto Noras, Louise Hopkins, Alexander Kniazev, Antonio Meneses, Stanislav Apolin, Xenia Jankovic, among others. Zoltán finished his undergraduate studies in 2012 and he also holds a Master of Music Degree from the Academy of Music in Novi Sad and an Artist Diploma Certificate from Columbus State University where he was a student and graduate assistant in the studio of Wendy Warner. In 2021 he obtained a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Cello Performance from the University of North Texas as a student of Nikola Ružević. Zoltán is also a winner of of the 2018 UNT Concerto Competition, where he was selected to perform as a soloist with the Concert Orchestra. He enjoys both performing and teaching, and served as a cello Teaching Fellow at the University of North Texas from 2016 to 2019.  He was also a member of the UNT Center Piano Trio, the recipient of the Hungarian American Coalition’s Dr. Elemér and Éva Kiss Scholarship, and he was awarded the University of North Texas’ Outstanding Graduate String Student Award in 2019. During the 2021-22 academic year Zoltán served as an adjunct professor at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX, and also as an adjunct professor of cello at the University of North Texas.