Anna Stoytcheva, winner of the “Ettore Pozzoli” International Piano Competition in Milano, Italy, made her Avery Fisher Hall debut in New York City at the age of nineteen. She performed the Ravel Piano Concerto in G major with The Juilliard Orchestra and Otto-Werner Mueller, after winning the Juilliard School Concerto Competition. In New York she has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in such venues as Weill Recital Hall and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Alice Tully Hall and The Juilliard Theater. Ms. Stoytcheva’s critically acclaimed concert tours in Italy, Canada, Japan and Bulgaria were broadcast nationally and internationally.

“Southampton Press” wrote: “Ms. Stoytcheva is an artist of exceptional gifts. She brings to her performance imagination, intelligence, rhythmic vitality, lyricism, tenderness and poetry. But always, from the first note to the last, she was a servant to the music…”. “Music and Vision” wrote: “The exquisite pianism of Anna Stoytcheva…was a standout. Ms. Stoytcheva’s playing was exquisite – limpid and elegant of phrase.”; “Coral Gables Gazette”: “Stoytcheva’s tonal palette was a whirl of fabulous colors. Her agility was stunning at lighting speed”. The Bulgarian National Television made several documentaries about Ms. Stoytcheva, and a DVD recording of her Japan concerts with violinist Yuko Uchiyama was distributed in more than 200,000 copies in Japanese magazines.

Ms. Stoytcheva has recorded two solo albums on Gega New label. The first one is “Out of Doors”, which was reviewed by “Piano Journal”, and the second - “Anna Stoytcheva Plays Schumann”, with Rossen Milanov and the Bulgarian Radio Orchestra.

As a soloist with orchestra, Ms. Stoytcheva performed with Orchestra del Angelicum in Milano, The Juilliard Orchestra in New York, The New World Symphony in Miami, The New Symphony Orchestra and National Radio Orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria, Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra and Varna Festival Orchestra in Varna, Bulgaria. She performed concerti under the baton of conductors Otto-Werner Mueller, Michael Tilson Thomas, Rossen Milanov, Kazem Abdullah, Wolfgang Seeliger, Alasdaire Neale, Shao-Chia Lu, Milen Nachev, and Georgi Dimitrov.

Anna Stoytcheva was a member of the chamber ensemble American Chamber Players, which performed extensively throughout the United States. She also collaborated in chamber ensembles with such distinguished artists as pianist Charles Wadsworth, violinist Chee-Yun, clarinettist Anthony McGill, as well as members from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. Recently she was invited to collaborate with Érik Gratton, principal flutist of the Nashville Symphony for a flute-piano recording project. She also performed with several Young Concert Artists winners, violinist Bella Hristova, violist Naoko Shimizu and soprano Kyoko Saito. At the renowned Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont, Anna performed with members of the Colorado Quartet, The Juilliard String Quartet and The Beaux Arts Trio. She also participated in such music festivals as Classical Tahoe in Incline Village, Nevada, Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, The Banff Center of the Arts in Canada, Pianofest in the Hamptons, Long Island, Kneisel Hall and Bowdoin Music Festival in Maine.

Ms. Stoytcheva spent three-years as a resident with the New World Symphony in Miami, directed by Michael-Tilson Thomas. There she performed as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, toured Italy and performed at Stern Auditorium and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Ms. Stoytcheva holds Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees and a post-graduate Artist Diploma in Piano Performance from the Juilliard School. Her teachers were Seymour Lipkin, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Jerome Lowenthal, Paul Schenly, Gulia Ganeva and Lidia Kuteva. Anna’s achievements at Juilliard include the Rockefeller Award, Peter Jay Sharp Award, Helen Fay Prize and the scholarships Vladimir Horowitz, William Petschek, Lois Smith II, A. and C. Levy and M.B. Knafel Memorial Scholarship.

Ms. Stoytcheva currently resides in New York, where she is a Co-chair of “Bulgarian Concert Evenings in New York” concert series at the Consulate of Bulgaria. She is looking forward to performances with her newly formed piano trio with Joanna Maurer, violin and Alberto Parrini, cello, former members of the American Chamber Players. In addition, Ms. Stoytcheva teaches piano in her private studio in New York and Westchester.