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Milena Bozhikova
Nationality	Bulgaria

Milena Borisova Bozhikova is a Bulgarian musicologist, PhD (1990), Doctor of Sciences [Dr. Habil.] (2010), Professor (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Institute for Arts Studies).

Biography

She graduated from the Specialized Music High School with a piano with honors and a medal. She then attended the National Academy of Music "Pancho Vladigerov" in Sofia with Piano under Prof. Milena Mollova and Musicology. After a competition, she entered the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with a degree in Musicology, which she graduated with Prof. Yury Nikolaevich Kholopov with excellent results and a medal. She studied in the piano class of Dmitry Nikolayevich Sakharov, a graduate of Lev Oborin.

She comes from the family of Bozhik Atanasov, head teacher, Bulgarian revolutionary, activist of the Military Defense Forces in Drama Macedonia. Her father, Dr. Boris Bozhikov, was a graduate of medicine and a practicing physician in France, where he defended a dissertation on the surgical treatment of tuberculosis (1936).

Since 1992, Bozhikova has worked at the Institute of Art Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences successively as Assistant professor, Associate professor and Professor; defended two theses. Guest lecturer at national and foreign universities. Supervisor of doctoral students, two of whom were nominated for the Youngest Scientist award of the BAS.

She was awarded the Academic Award for Scientific Achievements of the BAS (2000), research grants from the Paul Sacher Foundation, Switzerland (2008), the Fulbright Program (2022), UBC Book of the Year awards (1999 , 2010), national and foreign publishing and festival grants.

She is the Head of scientific projects, including to the Bulgarian Scientific Research Fund; Oxford University Press/Grove music (coordinator and author of 75 articles on Bulgarian personalities), an International project between BAS and Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, participant in projects for young scientists at the BAS, an international project at the Science Fund of the Czech Republic, in the initiatives of Towards a global history of music of the Balzan Research Project under the leadership of Prof. Reinhard Strohm (Oxford University), etc.

Bozhikova is an author of over 300 publications, including publications in Baerenreiter-Verlag, Oxford University Press, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Peter Lang Verlag, Moscow State Conservatory Publishing, Institute of Art Studies - Moscow, Prof. Marin Drinov BAS Publishing House, Institute for Arts Research - Sofia, Revista Muzica - Romania, etc.

Bibliography

• Васил Казанджиев (монография), Institute of Art Studies, Sofia 1999, 440 с. ISBN 954-90447-1-8.
• Music between Ontology and Ideology. Editor: Milena Bozhikova. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. ISBN 978-1-5275-4531-1
• Волфганг Рим и духовната ипостас в музиката [Wolfgang Rihm and Spiritual Hypostasis of Music]. Academic Publishing House “Marin Drinov”, 2020, 212 p., ISBN 978-619-245-077-9
• ХХ век като „късен стил“, Институт за изследване на изкуствата, София, 2009, 272 с, ISBN 978-954-8594-19-6.
• Схолии на музиковеда. Институт за изследване на изкуствата, София, 2011, 214 с., ISBN 978-954-8594-30-1.
• Балкански идентитети (съставител, научен редактор съвм. с акад. К.Кулавкова, и автор) Skopje, Macedonia, 2015, ISSN 0350 – 1914.
• Динамика на културните процеси, трансфер и памет (съставител, научен редактор съвм. с акад. К.Кулавкова, и автор). Sofia: Academic Publishing House Marin Drinov, 2017, ISBN 978-954-322-900-0
• Съвременно музикално мислене: композиция, медиация, посоки в ХХІ век (съставител, научен редактор и автор) [Contemporary musical thinking: composition, mediation, directions in the 21st century (Comp. & Sc.Editor)]. Sofia: Academic Publishing House “Marin Drinov”, 2019, 252 p., ISBN 978-954-322-984-0

Citations

[[Category:Bulgarian art historians]] [[Category:1959 births]]