Biography
Hailed byWashington Classical Review for her “melodious” and “soaring” tone, Bulgarian-Japanese violinist Julia Angelov recently had a recital debut at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, presented by Bulgarian Concert Evenings in New York. Upcoming engagements include recitals at the Embassy of Bulgaria and Arts Club of Washington, and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Burbank Philharmonic.
Angelov has appeared with numerous American orchestras including the National Philharmonic at Strathmore under the baton of Piotr Gajewski, the U.S. Army Band Orchestra, the Arlington Philharmonic, and the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra. Abroad, she has performed with the Sendai Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra in Japan, Eurasia Chamber Orchestra in Berlin, the Kaluga Symphony in Moscow under the baton of pianist and conductor Alexander Ghindin, and Kostroma Symphony Orchestra in Russia under the baton of Pavel Gerstein.
She has performed solo works at the Merkin Concert Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York, and the small halls of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. In her native Washington DC, she has performed at the National Gallery of Art and the Kreeger Museum, the Washington National Cathedral, and at numerous diplomatic embassies. She had the honor of performing at a gala for the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union at the Ronald Reagan Building. She was also a featured performer at a private salon concert for Maxim Vengerov hosted by the Russian Ambassador and Washington Performing Arts. She has performed on the Kennedy Center’s broadcast “NSO@Home,” and was an Artist in Residence as part of the inaugural Ensemble-in-Residence of the Heifetz Institute Music Institute.
Angelov has been awarded the Milka Violin Prize at the Pablo Casals Festival in France, Verao Classico Award at the Verao Classico Festival in Portugal, Amadeus Concerts Emerging Artists Award, and honored by the National Society of Arts and Letters. Competitions won include the Music Teachers National Association’s (MTNA) National Strings Competition, Washington Performing Arts’ Feder Memorial String Competition, and the Camerata Artists International Competition in New York. Most recently, she won 1st and Grand Prize of the Hennings-Fischer Young Artists Competition in Los Angeles. She was semifinalist of the 2020 Young Concert Artists (YCA) International Auditions in New York, 2021 Windsor International Strings Competition in the U.K, and 2024 Concert Artist Guild (CAG) roster. She is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and had been supported by the Markow-Totevy Foundation and Vladimir Spivakov Foundation.
Angelov’s summers are spent participating and performing at festivals. She has attended the Kronberg Academy Masterclasses, IMS Prussia Cove, Carl Flesch Akademie, Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, Heifetz International Music Institute, and Vladimir Spivakov Foundation’s “Moscow Meets Friends” Festival. She has worked closely with Mihaela Martin and Kirill Troussov, and has gained musical insights from Hilary Hahn, James Ehnes, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Pavel Vernikov, Gerhard Schulz of the Alban Berg Quartet, and Arabella Steinbacher. She has also performed chamber music alongside Paul Neubauer, Mihaela Martin, Frans Helmerson, and members of the Borromeo and Takács String Quartets.
Angelov currently studies with Julia Fischer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in Munich, Germany. She previously studied with Aaron Rosand, Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School, Olga Khroulevitch, and had been mentored by Nurit Bar-Josef at the NSO Youth Fellowship Program of the John F. Kenndey Center, where she was the Milka Violin Scholar. Angelov is a graduate of the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., where she was the Brock Scholar.
Angelov currently performs on a violin by Andrea Guarneri, on loan from Jonathan Solars Fine Violins.