Dr. Antonia Daskalova was born in Bulgaria where she earned bachelor’s degrees in both Piano Performance and Early Childhood Music Pedagogy. In 1999 she moved to Minnesota to study with the internationally known Professor Alexander Braginsky at the University of Minnesota (UMN). After the completion of her master’s degree at UMN in Piano Performance, she moved to British Columbia, Canada where she accepted a position in accompanying. In 2007 she moved back to Minnesota to complete a doctoral degree in Collective Piano with Professors Timothy Lovelace and Noriko Kawai.
Antonia has been an active performer in both solo and chamber music in Bulgaria, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. She has earned numerous awards from international competitions in both solo piano and chamber ensemble. Twice awarded the Ude Memorial Scholarship, she was the recipient of several other scholarships during her academic career.
After holding a full-time faculty position for six years at McPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis, Dr. Daskalova took a full-time faculty position at Music Art Center San Antonio (MACSA) as well as a staff accompanist at the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) and Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU), also located in San Antonio, Texas. She is a certified Advanced Piano Specialist by the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM) of Toronto, Canada. Her piano students are frequently granted the highest scores and results in the state of Texas during examination sessions. Recent successes of students from her studio include multiple first and second-place awards from local, state and, international competitions. Dr. Daskalova teaches all levels and abilities.
“As a piano teacher, it is my great responsibility to open the minds of my students to the infinity of the world of sound colors. In the studio the Kawai GX2 grand piano facilitates this with colorful, rich, and lush tones across the entire keyboard. Its register is well balanced with very little mechanical inertia in the sound. The GX2 comes alive, even at very low dynamic ranges. It projects from the lower bloom of the tone to the full range of overtones which gives impressive clarity. Simply amazing.”