Rada Slavinska is a Professor of Conducting at the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv, a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a member of the Union of the Bulgarian Composers.

She is a graduate of the Plovdiv Music School, where she studied piano with Elena Staneva, and of the Higher Institute of Music and Pedagogy (today’s Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts “Prof. Asen Diamandiev”), where she studied choral conducting with Krikor Chetinyan and orchestral conducting with Ivan Spassov.

Her conducting career spans within two years with the Plovdiv “Angel Bukureshtliev” Choral Society under the direction of Nikola Lipov, and 18 years with the “Detska Kitka” Choir under the direction of Zlatina Deliradeva as assistant conductor. She also spent six years as the chief artistic director and conductor of the “Philippopolis” Male Vocal Ensemble for Orthodox Chants. In 2006, Slavinska founded the “Eumolpeya” Girls’ Choir. During her 13 years as its conductor, she led the choir in over 650 concerts across 24 countries in Europe and Asia, participated in 29 international festivals, released a CD titled “Gloria in excelsis”, and carried out a series of representative projects in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria.

As a researcher and educator, Slavinska has authored four monographs, two academic books, and over 60 scientific publications in specialized journals. She is also the author of the first Bulgarian conducting textbook, “Technique of Choral Conducting”, and the study guide “A Short Course in Choral Studies”. Additionally, she has compiled six collections of choral songs. Over the years, she has presented papers on the challenges of musical arrangement at various international conferences in Bulgaria, Ukraine, and North Macedonia. Her combination of a strong classical education and an interest in folklore, coupled with her writing skills, logically structured scientific thinking, and artistic ability to approach subjects from unconventional angles, make her a highly qualified researcher of musical phenomena.

As a composer, Slavinska has written the first Bulgarian mass, “Missa Lilium”; the popular song cycle for children, “Oburkvatsiya”, with her own lyrics and music; “Rumelian Concerto” for piano and symphony orchestra; and over 150 pieces for various types of choral formations. She is also the author of a book of fairy tales, “If Miracles Didn’t Happen, Songs Wouldn’t Be Sung”.