Lily Bogdanova

The philharmonic in Ruse gave a concert there on 6 November 2015 with Lily Bogdanova billed as its soloist. Born in Sofia in 1994, she studied piano with Emilia Kaneva at the Lyubomir Pipkov National School of Music, then with Borislava Taneva at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music, in 2015/16 at the Vincenzo Bellini Institute in Catania with Daniele Petralia, and went on to the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin in the class of Eldar Nebolsin. The Bulgarian National Radio programme Allegro Vivace named her young musician of the year in 2014, the year she also issued a first disc, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair. She has played with the Sofia Philharmonic, the Rousse Philharmonic and the New Symphony Orchestra, and received a Clavarte Foundation scholarship in 2017.