MILA GEORGIEVA

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Mila Georgieva



Mila Georgieva was born into a musical family in Bulgaria. She began playing the violin at the age of four and, even before she reached her teens, she had a worldwide reputation winning top prizes in competitions in Italy, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, touring in Spain, Holland, the Philippines, Singapore, India and China, appearing on Italian, French and Swiss television.

Miss Georgieva studied with Dorothy DeLay and Cho-Liang Lin at the Juilliard School in New York and with Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall School in London. As her career developed, Miss Georgieva performed with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Kurt Masur, the Tchaikowsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio under Vladimir Fedosejew, the Bamberg Symphony under Georges Pretre, the Tonhalle Orchestra under Richard Hickox, the Orchestre National des pays de la Loire under Hubert Soudant, the orchestras of the Belgian and the Dutch Radio and Television, the Franz Lizst Chamber Orchestra from Budapest, the RIAS Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Symphony. She has also performed at the Ravinia Summer Festival in Chicago with Christoph Eschenbach and at the Easter Festival in Salzburg. During the past few summers, she took part in the Marlboro and Stavanger Music Festivals. Miss Georgieva has extensively toured in Germany, France, South America and Japan where she recorded four CDs for RCA Victor.

Recently, Miss Georgieva appeared as a soloist with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt and with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg during their tour of the United States. She won the top prize in the Mozart Festival organized by the Orpheum Foundation in Zurich. She also performed with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of Tenerife. Last October, Miss Georgieva played with the Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra under Michiyoshi Inoue and this fall she returns to Japan for the sixth time for a recital tour.

Miss Georgieva’s upcoming engagements also include a concert in Salzburg with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and chamber music concerts in the United States with musicians from the Ravinia Festival.

“an exceptional talent… technically impeccable, but most of all it is her musical instinct and the qualify of her feeling that make her an amazing force”

Pierre Amoyal (said in connection with Suisse Romande’s campaign to raise money to buy her a violin)

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