TEODORA MITEVA

posted by James Reel

    A listener has e-mailed me a link to a video of Teodora Miteva playing Bruch’s Kol Nidre, and my correspondent has high praise for Miteva’s performance. I haven’t had a chance to hear enough of it to form my own opinion, but I like what little I’ve heard. I didn’t know anything about Miteva until this morning, and I don't know much more after a cursory Googling. She was born 31 years ago in Bulgaria and seems to be active mainly in Austria and Germany. Her discography is extremely limited so far. The video clip, made with a single camera and thus not intended for normal broadcast, captures Miteva in concert with a women’s orchestra in Vienna—maybe it’s all the good female musicians who’ve been kept out of the Vienna Philharmonic. Or not. Follow the link and see what you think of her performance, and don’t forget to move on to the second half of the video in a separate file.