Members

BSMT members

Evidence-based public profiles with academic roles, research areas and publications.

Research dataset: 2026-10-08

President

Dimitar Ninov

Composer, music theorist and Professor of Instruction in Music Theory in the School of Music at Texas State University.

Academic context: Texas State University, School of Music
Research areas: tonal harmony · musical form · meter

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Emilia Kolarova

Musicologist and Professor of Music History at the National Academy of Music in Sofia.

Academic context: National Academy of Music 'Prof. Pancho Vladigerov'
Research areas: history of Bulgarian music · world music history · 20th-century music

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Vice-President

Bozhidar Chapkanov

Music theorist, pianist and neo-Riemannian analysis scholar; Vice-President of BSMT as of September 2026.

Academic context: Bulgarian Society for Music Theory
Research areas: neo-Riemannian theory · transformational theory · harmonic analysis

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Milena Bozhikova

Musicologist, Professor and DSc specialising in twentieth- and twenty-first-century music.

Academic context: Institute for Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Research areas: 20th- and 21st-century music · music theory · music history

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Vladimir Popov

Pianist, educator and music theorist associated with Mozarteum University Salzburg and Musikum.

Academic context: Musikum
Research areas: music theory · harmonic analysis · Bulgarian art music

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Ivan Penev

Pianist and music analyst researching form and harmony in Liszt's piano music.

Academic context: City St George's, University of London
Research areas: music analysis · performance studies · Franz Liszt

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Mila Mihova

Pianist, educator and researcher of Lazar Nikolov's piano works at the National Academy of Music.

Academic context: National Academy of Music 'Prof. Pancho Vladigerov'
Research areas: piano performance · performance studies · Bulgarian contemporary music

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Ivan Kostadinov Yanakiev

Conductor and music theorist researching tuning systems, microtonality and computational modelling of musical systems.

Academic context: Институт по механика – БАН / Institute of Mechanics, BAS
Research areas: music theory · microtonality · tuning systems

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Angelina Petrova

Musicologist and professor of solfeggio and contemporary music theory at the National Academy of Music.

Academic context: National Academy of Music 'Prof. Pancho Vladigerov'
Research areas: solfeggio · contemporary music theory · musical hermeneutics

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Aleksandra Dicheva

Pianist, collaborative pianist, educator and chamber-vocal-music researcher; regular member of BSMT.

Academic context: National Academy of Music 'Prof. Pancho Vladigerov', Department of Classical Singing
Research areas: chamber vocal music · art song · performance practice

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