Stefka Kushleva

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Stefka Manolova Kushleva is a Bulgarian folk singer, composer, conductor and teacher.

Biography
She was born on 16 February 1938 in Smolyan. Her mother Choka Sedyankova is the daughter of the singer and storyteller Maria Sedyankova from the village of Gela, from which she learns many folk songs, legends and traditions. Her father Manol Kushlev was military and played well in bagpipes. Close relatives of Stefka Kushleva are also famous bagpipers Mikhail Kalfov and Dafo Trendafilov.

The Kushlev family has five children The largest of them is Radka Kushleva (1926 Followed by Maria Kushleva (Seykova) (1933 " 2014"), Iliya Kushlev (1935 " 2016) and the two twins

Stefka Kushleva graduated from the Music School in Plovdiv in 1957. The same year she married Petar Nikolov Bratanov, Lieutenant General in the floor. 60020 in Smolyan.

He graduated with honors the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in the specialities of folk singing and conducting at Prof. Asen Diamandiev and together with his sister Anka Kushleva began teaching at AMTI.

After graduation of the music school Stefka Kushleva began her work as a conductor. Although very young, she heads an amateur folklore group in Smolyan with which she concerts in Bulgaria and wins many awards from festivals and competitions. During their entire singing career with In 1971, the long-playing record was published with them. Later, after graduating from AMTI, she also created some of her masterpieces with the songs "Kunda bitch" (the original titled "Fire Burns" because of the then censorship, placed and orchestrated for the first time with the state choir at AMITI) and "Stay goodbye," mountain (not to be confused with the masterpiece of the bagpiper Dafo Trendafilov).

After Radka Kushleva died, in the autumn of 1984 Stefka Kushleva was appointed Deputy Director and in the following academic year as Director of the Middle Music School for Folk Instruments and Folk Singing in Shiroka Luka.

Under its artistic leadership, the representative ensemble of the Medical University Shiroka Luka exports more than 1000 performances in Bulgaria and abroad, both solo and joint with AmtiI Plovdiv, Folklore ensemble In 1986 she created the folklore musical "Kitka velita," congratulations, according to Radka Bratanova and choreography of Yordanka Stoyanova and the latest version of the production was orchestrated by Georgi Andreev. Stefka Kushleva's song "Stay goodbye" is the finale of the musical dance performance "Rodopska Suites" with the music of Georgi Andreev, the premiere of which was in 1992 and was broadcast on BNT.

For more than 10 years, under the leadership of Stefka Kushleva studied and graduated hundreds of talented singers and instrumentalists. Some of her most prominent manners