Yana Deshkova

Great Symphonies II — the Sofia Philharmonic's concert of 20 June 2019 — had Yana Deshkova as its soloist. Born in 1977, she began her training at the Panayot Pipkov school in Pleven with Blagorodna Taneva and went on to study with Yfrah Neaman, Mincho Minchev and the members of the Melos Quartet, having first played in public at seven. She took first prize at the Rodolfo Lipizer competition in Italy, and her recordings are held in the archives of Bulgarian National Radio, RAI-3 and Radio Frankfurt as well as issued by the Danish label Da Capo. She has played with the New London Consort and alongside Michala Petri and François Leleux, has been principal concertmaster of the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra in Denmark and founded the ContiNEO Ensemble.