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Born in Bulgaria, and a resident of Canada since 1995, Dimiter Terziev holds piano performance degrees from the National Academy of Music in Sofia, Concordia University in Montreal, and the University of Alberta in Edmonton.  Prize winner of the Chopin National Competition in Bulgaria in 1989, Dimiter Terziev has appeared in numerous piano and chamber recitals in Canada, USA, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Netherlands.  He has also performed as soloist of several Bulgarian and Canadian Orchestras.  The artist’s debut disc Colours of Bulgaria: Piano Pieces by Pantcho Vladigerov was awarded Four Stars both by the CBC's Sound Advice and La scena musicale magazine.  He has later recorded three more CDs - Nocturnal World, The Beginning and End of Classicism, and Anger and Hope featuring music of various composers from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.  Terziev lives in Kamloops, British Columbia and teaches at his private studio there.