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.

At an early age, Karina Sim participated in numerous international competitions and festivals around Europe. Growing up in Moscow, Russia, the first music school Karina attended was Gnesin Moscow State Music School. After finishing middle school, she went to Moscow State Academic Music College of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. She graduated with her bachelor’s degree from the Moscow State Musical Pedagogical Institute of Ippolitov-Ivanov. While working on her bachelor’s degree, Karina participated in international festivals in Austria, Greece, Turkey, and Italy, as both a soloist and principal violinist.  In 2011, she participated in the International Competition in Ukraine for Young Performers. The following year she won the International Competition in Italy "Music XXI Century". In 2014 Karina came to the United States to pursue her master's degree at the University of North Texas (UNT) in Prof. Julia Bushkova’s studio. The following year, she won a Concerto Competition at UNT. In March 2016, she performed the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the UNT symphony orchestra and received her master's degree from UNT. Later that year, Karina started working on her Graduate Artist Certificate and was placed in the position of first violin in a graduate string quartet at UNT. Throughout her 4 years at UNT, Karina held a TA position, was part of the Early Music program, Center Chamber program, Nova contemporary music program, and Symphony Orchestra. In addition to performing in numerous events and recordings, Karina has built a foundational teaching experience. Along with the performance experience, Karina prepares her students for international competitions, All State, and All Region competitions. Many of her students successfully have been placed in Great Dallas Youth Orchestra, Dallas Asian Orchestra, Denton Youth Orchestra, All Region and All State orchestras. She looks forward to her students’ winners’ concert at Carnegie Hall in spring 2022.