Violinist Bella Hristova won First Prize in the 2008-09 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, where she was also awarded the Rhoda Walker Teagle Prize, which sponsors her New York debut in the Young Concert Artists Series at Merkin Hall, the Miriam Brody Aronson Award, the Ruth Laredo Memorial Award, the Candlelight Concert Society Concert Prize, and the Lied Center of Kansas Concert Prize.

Ms. Hristova will also makes her debut in the Young Concert Artists Series at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Washington Center for the Performing Arts in Olympia, and the University of Florida, appears at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Cartagena Festival Internacional de Musica.   She appears as soloist with orchestras with the Owensboro (KY), Johnstown (PA), DuPage (IL), and Indianapolis symphonies.  Also during the 2009-10 season, Ms. Hristova performs Bach’s Concerto for Three Violins with the celebrated violinists Cho-Liang Lin and Kyoko Takezawa, as guest artist with the New York String Orchestra conducted by Jaime Laredo, and Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy with Indiana University’s Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor David Effron, as winner of their 2009 Concerto Competition.

As Winner of First Prize in the 2007 Michael Hill International Competition in New Zealand, Ms. Hristova made a critically acclaimed concert tour of the country and recorded a CD of solo violin works by the Belgian virtuoso Charles de Bériot for the Naxos label.  She was awarded a career grant from the Salon de Virtuosi in New York and performs as a new member of Chamber Music Society Two at Lincoln Center this season.

Ms. Hristova has appeared on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion on National Public Radio.  Other festival appearances include The Grand Teton Festival, Music@Menlo, Ravinia’s Steans Institute, Music from Angel Fire, and the Marlboro Music Festival.

Born in Pleven, Bulgaria in 1985, Ms. Hristova began violin studies at the age of six.  At 12, she participated in master classes with Ruggiero Ricci at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.  Since the age of 13, she has lived in the United States, working with Stephen Shipps.  In 2003, Ms. Hristova entered The Curtis Institute, where she worked with Ida Kavafian (YCA Alumna) and studied chamber music with Steven Tenenbom.  She is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma with Jaime Laredo at Indiana University.  Ms. Hristova plays a 1655 Nicolò Amati violin, once owned by the violinist Louis Krasner.

YCA Artists are continually adding to their repertoire.  Please contact the artist management staff at Young Concert Artists if you are interested in a work which does not appear on this list.

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