Stanislava Stoytcheva is a Bulgarian pianist, composer, and singer. In 1989, she won the International Grand Prix for Composition in Nagoya, Japan. After completing her studies in piano, composition, and jazz singing in Sofia, she followed her passion for the expressive possibilities of the human voice to Munich, where she studied concert and opera singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts. While still a student, she was engaged as a young soloist at the Bavarian State Opera, performing under renowned conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Fabio Luisi, Adam Fischer, Ivor Bolton, and Enrique Mazzola.
She has worked extensively with leading orchestras and opera houses, including the Bavarian State Opera, the Festival Orchestra Stuttgart, the Nagoya Philharmonic, the Sofia State Opera, and the New International Philharmonic. She has performed internationally with solo programs as both composer and performer, and her awards include first prizes at the International Singing Competition in Vilnius, Lithuania, and the Dimitar Nenov Piano Competition in Bulgaria.
She was a longtime member of Live Music Now, the organization founded by Yehudi Menuhin.
Between 2020 and 2022, she worked on three recording projects, including her debut album, “Barber Songs,” released in September 2022. She also recorded an album of Jorge Calandrelli’s piano compositions, produced by the composer himself. During the same period, her orchestral works were recorded under the direction of Andrew Cottee at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London.
In recent years, she has devoted herself to projects that combine all her skills as a composer, pianist, and singer to explore contemporary themes. One of these projects took her to the Theological Academy of the Vatican, where she performed her setting of texts from the Song of Songs. She also composed “A Birthday” for Singer Pur’s “Among Whirlwinds,” a project dedicated to giving female composers from around the world a wider audience. The album won an OPUS KLASSIK award in 2022.
In 2023, she was composer-in-residence at the Singer Pur Days in Adlersberg near Regensburg, where she premiered three compositions written specifically for the ensemble.
Her music has been broadcast by the BBC, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), and NDR.