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Dimitar Ninov
Composer, music theorist and Professor of Instruction in Music Theory in the School of Music at Texas State University.
His research focuses on tonal harmony, musical form, meter and aural training.
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Documented individual research profiles of BSMT members, without implying formal research groups where none are separately documented.
Research represented in BSMT
This section presents documented individual research profiles of members. They are not described as formal BSMT research groups unless such a group is separately documented.
Across the public profiles, documented work currently spans harmony and form, transformational and neo-Riemannian theory, Bulgarian music history and analysis, twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, performance studies, microtonality and acoustics, AI and music, solfeggio, and post-tonal aural analysis.
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Emilia Kolarova
Musicologist and Professor of Music History at the National Academy of Music in Sofia.
She works in historical musicology, with emphasis on Bulgarian musical culture, tradition and modernity, and intercultural dialogue.
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Bozhidar Chapkanov
Music theorist, pianist and neo-Riemannian analysis scholar; Vice-President of BSMT as of September 2026.
His research centres on chromatic harmony, Liszt's late piano music and hybrid functional/neo-Riemannian analysis.
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Milena Bozhikova
Musicologist, Professor and DSc specialising in twentieth- and twenty-first-century music.
Her research spans twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, theoretical systems and compositional techniques, structural analysis and cultural interaction.
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Vladimir Popov
Pianist, educator and music theorist associated with Mozarteum University Salzburg and Musikum.
Verified scholarly traces link him to late-Romantic harmony, Scriabin and Bulgarian art music, especially Veselin Stoyanov.
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Ivan Penev
Pianist and music analyst researching form and harmony in Liszt's piano music.
He researches the relationship between formal process, genre, harmony and performance interpretation, primarily in Franz Liszt's piano music.
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Mila Mihova
Pianist, educator and researcher of Lazar Nikolov's piano works at the National Academy of Music.
She studies Lazar Nikolov's piano works from a performer's perspective, focusing on stylistic features, thematic processes and interpretation.
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Ivan Kostadinov Yanakiev
Conductor and music theorist researching tuning systems, microtonality and computational modelling of musical systems.
Ivan Yanakiev's research connects music theory with acoustics, psychoacoustics and computational methods. Core topics include microtonality, tuning and intonation systems, concert pitch, spectral entropy and consonance, together with applications of artificial intelligence and neural networks to music analysis and generation.
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Angelina Petrova
Musicologist and professor of solfeggio and contemporary music theory at the National Academy of Music.
She works on solfeggio as an analytical discipline, contemporary music theory and twentieth-century Bulgarian music, with particular interest in Lazar Nikolov and post-tonal aural models.
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Aleksandra Dicheva
Pianist, collaborative pianist, educator and chamber-vocal-music researcher; regular member of BSMT.
Her research centres on chamber vocal music, singer–pianist ensemble practice and the interpretation of Bulgarian art song, with a principal focus on the music of Todor Popov.
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