Anna Furnadzhieva

Anna Furnadzhieva is a violinist and concertmaster of the orchestra of the State Opera Varna. On 27 February 2015 she played the solo part of Brahms's Violin Concerto op. 77 with the Varna symphony orchestra under the Italian conductor Stefano Segedoni, in a programme shared with the pianist Stefania Passamonte. On 15 August 2026 she was a soloist in the Concert for the Day of Varna on Opera Square Varna, conducted by Nayden Todorov, where she took one of the two violin parts in Lumbye's Concert Polka for Two Violins and Orchestra beside Krasimir Dzhambazov, in an evening of opera arias sung by Ilina Mihaylova, Zhana Kostova, Reinaldo Droz, Svilen Nikolov and Evgeni Stanimirov. Born in Burgas, she began the violin at six with Lazar Gavalyugov, won a prize at the Svetoslav Obretenov national competition at ten, and at eighteen played Saint-Saens's Third Violin Concerto with the Burgas Philharmonic. She took her master's degree at the National Academy of Music in Sofia in 1991, in the violin classes of Stoyka Milanova and Eli Kazakova. Two years in the Simfonietta of Bulgarian National Radio were followed in autumn 1993 by the orchestra of the State Opera Varna, where she became assistant concertmaster in 1994; from 1997 she spent three years with L'avant scene opera in Switzerland, and at the end of 2002 won the competition for concertmaster in Varna. In 2009 she founded the Arte String Quartet.