Conductor
Biography
Dora Hristova, born on 1 March 1947 in the village of Dabovo, studied choral conducting and music pedagogy at the State Conservatory in Sofia and began as assistant to Hristo Nedyalkov at the Children's Radio Choir, later working with Krasimir Kyurkchiyski on vocal folklore. Since 1987 she has conducted the female choir The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices, which under her direction has given more than nine hundred concerts in Europe, the Americas and Asia and carried Bulgarian folk polyphony to audiences abroad. She holds a doctorate in art studies and has taught chamber vocal ensemble at the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv; her honours include the Order of Cyril and Methodius, First Class, and the Golden and Crystal Lyre awards.