Nedka Petkowa (SI)
Nedka Petkowa was born in Bulgaria and studied the piano at the musical academy in Sofia and musicology at the conservatory of Rimsky-Korsakov in Leningrad, now St. Peterborough. She graduated in musicology from the Art Faculty of Ljubljana, where she now lives and teaches. She attended harpsichord master classes in the International Summer Academy of Ancient Music in Innsbruck. Then, she studied at the conservatory of Winterthur, Zürich, and then at the Schola Cantorum of Basilea under the guide of Johann Sonnleitner. In the 80s, Nedka Petkowa was a member of the Recorder Studio Ensemble in Ljubljana, a group oriented toward contemporary music on early music period instruments. As a harpsichordist, she has recorded for Slovenian radio, playing as a soloist and with numerous chamber ensembles (Trio Ritratto d' Amore) and orchestras, including the Slovenicum Chamber Orchestra and the Carnium Chamber Orchestra. She has worked as a continuo player in the baroque singing class taught by soprano Barbara Schlick at the Early Music Festival in Brežice, Slovenia. She has recorded works by Girolamo Frescobaldi, François Couperin, Antoine Forqueray, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Georg Friedrich Händel for the RTV Slovenia Record & Tapes. Nedka Petkowa plays on a copy of a 1780 Cresci harpsichord built by the Master harpsichord maker Nicola Paoli of Florence.
