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Acclaimed for her beautiful sound and passionate performances, violinist Delyana Lazarova is a young artist with a growing international career as a soloist, conductor and chamber musician.  A native of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, she began formal violin studies at the age of 5.  Only a few years later, she won the First Prize at the National Violin Competition “Svetoslav Obretenov.”  By the age of 16, Ms. Lazarova had already won top prizes in national and international violin competitions and made her solo orchestral debuts with the Plovdiv and Pazardjik Philharmonic Orchestras in Bulgaria.

Delyana Lazarova joined the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra in 2013 as Concertmaster and Artist-in-Residence.  Shortly thereafter, she made her Montgomery solo debut performing Tchaikovsky's Concerto for Violin.  Previously, she held the position of Assistant Concertmaster with both the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra and the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra, and was a member of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra and Acadiana Symphony Orchestra.  Delyana Lazarova has performed with such conductors as Leonard Slatkin, David Effron, Arthur Fagan, JoAnn Falletta, Carl St.Clair, Jamie Laredo, and Thomas Wilkins.

An active recitalist, Ms. Lazarova has performed extensively in Europe, including concerts in Bulgaria, Romania, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Spain and the Czech Republic, as well as concerts in the United States, Canada and Israel.  Recently, she made her debut at the prestigious Steinway Hall in New York City. 

 

Delyana Lazarova is a laureate of several international violin competitions, including the Enescu Competition in Romania and the Young Musical Virtuosi Competitons in Bulgaria.  She is the first recipient of the Sidney M. Blitzer Award in Violin Performance, the winner of the Baton Rouge Music Club’s Award for Young Artists, and a two-time Concerto Competition Winner of the Dean Competition at Louisiana State University, where she performed Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 2 and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

 

As a member of the Duo Petrova-Lazarova, she recently won the Special Jury Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition "Castilla y Leon" in Valladolid, Spain, in May 2015. Delyana Lazarova has participated in the Brightmusic Chamber Music Ensemble concert series in collaboration with Daniel Blumenthal in the United States and Denmark.  She has also taken part in the chamber music series at the Round Top Music Festival, in collaboration with Kevork Mardirossian, Lee Phillips and Yuval Gotlibovich.  Recently, Ms. Lazarova was invited to participate in the Schubert Celebration in Bloomington, Indiana, where she collaborated with  James Campbell in the world premiere of Brian Newbould's clarinet quintet transcription of Schubert's Sonatina in A Minor.

 

Ms. Lazarova’s educational background includes a Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree and Performance Diploma from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, where she studied with Kevork Mardirossian and Mauricio Fuks.  She received a special scholarship for artistic excellence for her degree work at Indiana.

 

In 2014, Delyana Lazarova joined the music faculty of Alabama State University.  A devoted teacher, her students have won numerous prizes at national music competitions and admission with scholarship to various summer festivals, including Tanglewood Music Festival.

 

Ms. Lazarova plays on a 1978 Petrus Sgaraboto Mediolani violin, on generous loan from a private collector in Georgia.

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