Liya Petrova
Liya Petrova, violin
Liya Petrova became an international discovery in 2016, when she won the first prize at the International Carl Nielsen Violin Competition 2016 in Denmark, directed by Nikolaj Szeps- Znaider. Two years later she recorded Nielsen’s Concerto and Prokofiev’s First Concerto for Orchid Classics with the Odense Symphony Orchestra under the Estonian conductor Kristiina Poska. This first album won her the acclaim of the international press – London’s Sunday Times admired her ‘wonderful sound – ripe and silvery, phrasing with majestic breadth’, Pizzicato in Germany also qualified her sound as ‘silvery and pure’, and Gramophone praised her extraordinary ‘tonal variety in a wonderful disc’. “The Strad” was impressed by her “effortless virtuosity” and “Classical Music” magazine found her interpretation of the Nielsen concerto “astonishingly good” and “highly lyrical”.
As a soloist, Liya Petrova has been a guest of the Orchestre de Paris, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, the Philharmonie de Luxembourg, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen, the Schatskapelle – Weimar, Philharmonie de Monte-Carlo, Brussels Philharmonic, North German Philharmonic, Orchestres National de Lyon and Bordeaux, Kansai Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Pays de Loire, Sinfonia Varsovia, Odense Symphony Orchestra. He has worked with leading conductors such as Elim Chan, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Duncan Ward, Philippe Herreweghe, Krzysztof Penderecki, Nikolaj Znaider, Majena Dyakun, Jan Tortelier, Xiang Zhang, Ariane Matiakh, Roberto Minasi, Christopher Warren Green, Michel Tabachnik and Jesus Lopez Cobos.
He regularly plays chamber music with French Tchaikovsky Competition First Prize winner Alexandre Kantorow and has partnered with many wonderful musicians such as Beatrice Rana and Emmanuel Pahud, Pablo Fernández, Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet, Misha Maisky, Renaud Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, James Ehnes, Nicolas Angelich, Frank Brayly, Yuja Wang, Gerard Caussé, Antoine Tamestit, Bruno Philippe, Aurélien Pascal and Gautier Capuçon. Liya Petrova is a regular guest at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Chamber Music Festival, Rheingau, Ludwigsburger Schloss, Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival, La Folle Journée – Nantes, La Roque d’Anthéron and Rencontres Musicales – Evian.
In January 2020, Leah released the first album from her new collaboration with the Mirare label – works by Beethoven, Barber and Britten in collaboration with pianist Boris Kuznetsov. In 2021 a second disc was released, featuring Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Mozart’s rarely performed K 271 Concerto, known as No 7, with Jean-Jacques Kantorow and the Sinfonia Varsovia . These albums, along with the Nielsen and Prokofiev concertos already released by Orchid Classics (with the Odense Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kristiina Poska), have earned unanimous praise from critics around the world. Conquering world stages, at the end of 2023 Liya returned to Sofia for a concert with the Sofia Philharmonic, in which they present the inspiring Violin Concerto No. 2 by Béla Bartók.
Liya Petrova was born in Bulgaria into a family of musicians and studied with Augustin Dumay in Brussels, Antje Weithaas at the Hans Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin and Renaud Capuçon at the Lausanne School of Music.
She is currently based in Paris. Liya plays the Hellios, a magnificent instrument made in Cremona in 1737 by Stradivarius’s pupil Carlo Bergonzi, a generous loan from private sponsors.
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