Biography
Hailed byWashington Classical Review for her “melodious” and “soaring” tone, violinist Julia Angelov recently performed a recital with acclaimed pianist Rohan De Silva in Washington DC, and performed chamber music alongside Julia Fischer, Nils Mönkemeyer, and Benjamin Nyffenegger at the Künstlerhaus Boswil in Switzerland. Upcoming engagements include performance appearances on Salon De Virtuosi in New York City, and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Burbank Philharmonic in Los Angeles.
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 Carnegie Hall and Merkin Concert Hall in New York, the Beethoven Hall of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and Prokofiev Hall of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. In her native Washington DC, she has performed at the Terrace Theater and Millennium Stages of the John F. Kennedy Center, the National Gallery of Art and the Kreeger Museum, the Washington National Cathedral, and at numerous diplomatic embassies. She has 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 has also performed on the Kennedy Center’s live broadcast “NSO@Home,” and was an Artist in Residence as part of the inaugural "HEIR" Program 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, the Amadeus Concerts Emerging Artists Award, and has been honored by the U.S. National Society of Arts and Letters. Competitions won include the Music Teachers National Association’s (MTNA) National Strings Competition, Washington Performing Arts (WPA) Feder Memorial String Competition, Friday Morning Music Club (FMMC) Gustave N. Johansen Jr. Strings Competition, and the Hennings-Fischer Young Artists Competition in Los Angeles. She was semifinalist of the 2020 Young Concert Artists (YCA) International Auditions, 2021 Windsor International Strings Competition in the U.K, and 2024 Concert Artist Guild (CAG) roster. She is currently supported by the Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and has been a scholarship holder of the Markow-Totevy Foundation and Vladimir Spivakov Foundation.
Angelov’s summers are spent performing at festivals. She has participated in the Kronberg Academy Masterclasses, IMS Prussia Cove, Carl Flesch Akademie in Baden Baden, 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 participated in masterclasses with 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 Mihaela Martin, Paul Neubauer, Frans Helmerson, and members of the Borromeo and Takács String Quartets.
Angelov is currently under the tutelage of Julia Fischer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in Munich, Germany, where she is pursuing a Masters degree. She previously studied with Aaron Rosand, Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School, and Olga Khroulevitch. She was the Milka Violin Fellow while part of the Kennedy Center's NSO Youth Fellowship Program, and was mentored by NSO Concertmaster Nurit Bar-Josef. She is a graduate of the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., where she was the Brock Scholar.
Angelov performs on a violin by Andrea Guarneri, kindly on loan from Jonathan Solars Fine Violins, New York.