Калина Христова

Kalina Hristova, born in 1969, finished the Lyubomir Pipkov school of music in Sofia in 1988 in the class of V. Choparinov and entered the Academy of Music the same year, in the violin class of E. Kazakova, specialising during her studies in Turin with Professor M. Sirbu. She was concertmaster of the Orpheus chamber orchestra from 1993 to 2000 and became concertmaster of the Sofia Philharmonic in January 2003. In October 2005 she went to Osaka as guest soloist of the Kansai Philharmonic, giving recitals there and in Kyoto and Nara. She holds prizes from Bulgarian national competitions and has made audio and video recordings for the archives of the national radio and television. Her concert work reaches from Mozart to living Bulgarian composers and into symphonic arrangements of popular repertoire - Boris Karadimchev's Fantasy for violin, programmes built on the Beatles, and film music.