For an even more immersive experience, Duo offers a combined program with a professional ballroom dance couple.
Marietta Chalakova and Kaloyan Petkov are a dance couple professionals in the field of sports dancing, the couple has won numerous awards and participated in sports dance competitions both in Bulgaria and abroad (Greece, Romania, England, China, etc.).
They are both graduated teachers of sports dance in the club of sports dance „Sofia DANCE” with diplomas from NSA „Vasil Levski”.
Marietta and Kaloyan have extensive experience as performers, organizers and choreographers in shooting music and promotional videos, participating in concerts and shows, cinema and stage productions.
Mladen Taskov graduated in 1982 from the music school GNESINA in Moscow with a specialty in piano, and later from DMA “P. Vladigerov“ instrumental faculty in the piano class of prof. Dora Lazarova.
From 1988-1990 he was assistant professor of piano. From 1990-1998 he worked in Bad Harzburg and Bad Wildungen-Germany as a pianist with a chamber orchestra.
Since 1999 he has been a full-time teacher/co-tutor at the L. Pipkov National Music School. 2000-2001 he worked in Buenos Aires-Argentina.
Since 2004 he has been a lecturer in compulsory piano at the Department of Pop and Jazz Art at the National Music Academy “P. Vladigerov“. He participates as a pianist in master classes of Milen Nachev, Valeri Vachev, Tatiana Koleva, Emmanuel Sejourne.
In 2011/2012 season he participated in the preparation of performances in the programme of the National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Ljubljana-Slovenia. She has recorded for Bulgarian National Radio, Bulgarian National Television, Radio Nacional Buenos Aires-Argentina, and has performed solo and chamber music programs in Bulgaria, Germany, Korea, Argentina, Italy and Turkey.
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