Recent Press

Dikova, Dean and Koycheva have few equals in talent and professional qualities.
Kultura issue 45 (2395), Dec. 23, 2005

Delivered with clarity and confidence – timbrally, instrumentally, emotionally mature. This performance was among the most brilliant and intensely substantial.
“From Classical Form to Happening”
Angelina Petrova in Kultura issue 37 (2477), Nov. 2, 2007, p. 2

Inspired and convincing ... The concert concluded with the Triple Concerto Op. 56 of Beethoven with the trio Ardenza: Daniela Dikova, piano, Galina Koycheva, violin, and Geoffrey Dean, violoncello, as soloists. They brought out the work’s virtuosity and profundity…
Blagovesta Ryadkova in Muzikalni horizonti issue 3/2007, p. 10

Instrumentalists like Dikova, Dean, and Koicheva…have few equals in talent and professional qualities. The early composition of Brahms came across with a clear line and with deep and purposefully focused tone; with an obvious enjoyment of the revelations of the moment in the musical fabric, in which the pianism organically gathered the high and low registers of the violin and violoncello and unified them in the process… The tragic qualities of the Shostakovich masterpiece, opus 67, were revealed on the stunning level of seemingly uniform timbres and sounds, without pathos or irrelevant gestures, with great purity of line; with vivid suggestions and an inevitability which held the audience spellbound. The music reached us just as the composer had wanted it to - fully exposed, heated to white-hot, gripping…
Kultura weekly, issue 45 (2395), December 23, 2005

As with any artistic event, prepared with inspiration and professionalism, the concert of the Ardenza Trio had its “dramaturgy of success.” In the Bergerettes for piano trio (Paris, 1939), Martinu’s music was brought to life in a virtuosic game with images and colors – and this in a rarely-discovered continent of beauty in chamber music-making. Every instrumental gesture and stylistic quirk found its appropriate reflection in the interpretation of Dean, Dikova, and Koycheva. [The concert proved] that the whole artistic journey of a 20th century master [Martinu] can become an emotionally-charged and attractive event for admirers of chamber music on a grand scale.
Muzikalni horizonti, issue 4.2009