About us

ARDENZA
FOUNDATION

Foundation

OUR PASSION

Based in Sofia, Bulgaria, the Ardenza Foundation is an award-winning cultural organization led by seasoned musicians with a passion for bringing people together through collaborative music projects.

Ardenza Foundation founders Daniela Dikova, Geoffrey Dean, and Galina Koycheva are also the Ardenza Trio, a well-known classical chamber music ensemble.

MANAGMENT

OUR TEAM

Daniela Dikova
Galina Koycheva
Geoffrey Dean
Elvis Vasilev
Mariana Bojkova
Zhenya Dobrikova
Soomi Kim

Support

OUR PARTNERS

Why Ardenza?

OUR NAME

We were recently asked about the name of our organization. This is how we answered:

Ardenza is what chamber music demands of the people who play it. It’s an Italian word that means passion, excitement, seriousness – just think fervor.

The adjective ardente can be found in French, Italian, and Portuguese with additional meanings such as burning, fiery, flaming, fiery, ardent, raging, yearning, fierce, earnest, warm, alive, hot, hot-blooded.

In other Romance languages, it is arder (to burn in Spanish) and ardere (to burn in Romanian).

If you really burn to meet like-minded musicians to play chamber music, then the music you make will be on fire – from that initial spark, the flame will follow. When there’s excitement, you can hear it in the performance.

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For COMPETITIONS only:
ardenzafoundation@gmail.com

For general questions:
info@ardenzamusic.org