“Dimitar Berbatov” Foundation is founded with a constitutive act from April 7, 2008 by the football star Dimitar Berbatov, leaded by his desire to contribute to the personal development and realisation of the children of Bulgaria. The Foundation is a non-profit, non-religious and politically independent social organisation.
Its main mission is to vastly help young people to educate themselves, to develop their gifts and talents, as well as to give them a chance to share them with the world. The Foundation is determining itself as an organisation for realising deeds to benefit the society.
Since December 2009 DBF is an official member of the Bulgarian Donation Fоrum.
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Mariela Apostolova was born on 02.10.1998 in Plovdiv. Her gift and abilities were noticed when she was very young by Ass.Prof. Svetla Kaludova-Stanilova from Academy for Music and Dance Art in Plovdiv. Even at that age, Mariela showed considerable vocal qualities and good potential for growth and development. During the last five years, this little performer of traditional Bulgarian folk songs has been constantly demonstrating her talent on different national folk competitions, where she inevitably wins first prizes. Her credits are increased by several broadcasts for Bulgarian National Television and Bulgarian National Radio.
Mariela performs songs from all folk regions in Bulgaria, but her favorite ones are from Thrace. Her slow songs as well as her fast ones represent the folk music of the Pazardzhik region in a brilliant way. According to the specialists in the field of folk singing, Mariela has a voice rich in timbre colour , wide range and she can easily perform sophisticated ornaments. Being only 11, she has a singing technique which is inherent only to the best performers of this genre.
Some of Mariela’s more significant prizes:
Natalia Vladimirova is 12 years old, born in Burgas, Bulgaria.
‘..I immensely love to sing and play the piano! I sing Thracian songs and songs from the Strandja mountain since I was 4 years old. I participate in a lot of concerts and I get exited before the start of each one of them. My dream is to become a great pianist one day, as well as to glorify the Bulgarian folklore all around the world ...
I am currently a pupil at the National School for Music and Theatrical Art ‘Prof. Pancho Vladigerov’ – town Burgas.”
Natalia’s music pedagogues are Mr. Stoiko Georgiev – director of the Children’s National Choir ‘Trepetlika’ at the Municipal children’s complex in Burgas and Mrs. Albena Kavardzhikova – piano teacher.
Alexandra Borisova was born on June 17th, 1997. She lives in Kyustendil with her family.
She has been revealing an unusual talent for music since she was a little girl. Encouraged by the unreserved support of her family, she started to play piano to improve her musical talent. Her first appearance on the stage was when she was four years old. Her teacher in vocal music is her mother Gergana Borisova.
Alexandra sings various songs from different folklore regions in Bulgaria. In 2005 she took part in the traditional charity concert ‘’Bulgarian Christmas” under the patronage of the Bulgarian President.
She is a winner of many awards and insignia of honour in various national and international music competitions.
Maria Encheva was born on 27.01.1994. Being brought up in the traditions of the popular folklore, she takes up singing since her very early childhood. Gradually she engages her efforts in the performance of Thracian folkloric songs and the typical for them vocal ornaments. It is precisely in the Bulgarian national song that Maria discerns the unmistakable beauty of her home country and sees her life-long vocation.
Student of renowned figures in the domain of Bulgarian national folkloric singing, and thanks to her unique voice, Maria has attained a number of awards. Amongst them are her first prizes from:
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