May 21 2008
NGU’s Lilia Stoycheva to Play at Kennedy Center
Congratulations to my NGU friend and colleague, Dr. Lilia Stoytcheva!
Dr. Lilia Stoytcheva is a firm believer in miracles. She’s experienced too many of them to have any doubts.
As she prepares for a Tuesday performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Stoytcheva is reminded of her first exposure to music in her native Bulgaria at age 5 — and a series of improbable steps in between.
Stoytcheva, an associate music professor at North Greenville University, says it was divine intervention that enabled her to attend a music conservatory that led to a teaching job in the Czech Republic. Another dose of special intervention provided a full music scholarship at Winthrop University, and yet another miracle paved the way to U.S. citizenship.
Read more at Greenville Online.
