Лилия Байрова – Шулц

Bulgaria Hall, 10 May 2005: the Classic FM Radio Orchestra and the Sofia Philharmonic gave a concert together, and Lili Bayrova Schulz was one of its soloists. The violinist Mila Georgieva and the pianist Georgi Cherkin played on the same evening. A cellist born in Sofia in 1971, she had her first lessons from her father, Yoncho Bayrov, and continued with him at the Vienna Conservatory, studying further with Heinrich Schiff, Boris Pergamenschikow and Valentin Erben and taking masterclasses with Daniil Shafran, Janos Starker and Harvey Shapiro; in 1991 she was invited to the Piatigorsky Seminar in Los Angeles to work with Lynn Harrell. She has played as soloist with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Sinfonia Varsovia, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Bruckner Orchester Linz, the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and the Copenhagen Philharmonic, and performed Penderecki's Cello Concerto with Sinfonia Varsovia under the composer and the Brahms Double Concerto with Julian Rachlin. She began teaching a cello class at the Vienna Conservatory in 1999.