Bulgarian-born pianist Miryana Moteva enjoys a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician and educator. She has recently appeared with Linden Hills Chamber Orchestra in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24. Next season, she makes her debut with Golden Valley Chamber Orchestra and Buffalo Community Orchestra performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Moteva collaborates regularly with members of the Minnesota Orchestra in concerts across the US, including the Schubert Club Courtroom Concerts in Saint Paul, the Bulgarian Concert Evenings in New York, New Jersey’s Mozaika Music Series, University of Wisconsin, Hamline University, University of Minnesota’s Balkanicus Series, MacPhail Center for Music’s Spotlight Concerts, the Basilica of Saint Mary, the Fitzgerald Theater, and the Cowles Center, among others. She has concertized with the Isles Ensemble and 10th Wave Music Collective. Her performances have been featured on Classical MPR and NPR’s ‘From the Top.’ During the 2024-2025 season, Moteva can be heard on University of Saint Thomas’ Chapel Arts Series, on St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church’s ‘Concerts by the Creek’ Series, and at Westminster Hall in Minneapolis. She also appears as both a concert curator and a performer for the ‘Mysticism, Legends and Traditions’ Spotlight Performance and ‘The Catalan Tradition: Volume 2’ showcase at MacPhail Center for Music. An ardent supporter of new classical music, Moteva has been an active commissioner of new works. Her most recent commission, in collaboration with duo-partner violinist David Brubaker, was Catalonian composer Marc Migó’s Sonata for Violin and Piano ‘Death and Spring.’ Following the work’s successful premiere at the Schubert Club in April 2023, the duo was invited to embark on a concert tour of Spain and record a Catalan Music CD on the IBS Classical Music Label in the summer of 2025. Moteva has appeared at festivals such as ‘March Music Days,’ and ‘Music and Earth’ international festivals in Bulgaria, and ‘San Daniele International Piano Meeting’ in Italy. Currently, she is on the faculty of MacPhail Center for Music, where she serves as a staff pianist and maintains a thriving studio as a piano teaching artist. Moteva holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Piano Performance, and a Doctorate in Collaborative Piano from the University of Minnesota. A native of Bulgaria, she is a graduate of the National School of Music in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her principal teachers include Emma Tahmizian, Lydia Artymiw, and Timothy Lovelace.