Biography
Hailed by Washington Classical Review for her “melodious” and “soaring” tone, American-born Bulgarian-Japanese violinist Julia Angelov is a recipient of the 2026 Salon De Virtuosi Career Grant in New York. She recently led an octet performance at the Künstlerhaus Boswil in Switzerland alongside Julia Fischer, with whom she is currently studying, and performed in recital with Rohan De Silva in New York and Washington DC. Upcoming engagements include the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Burbank Philharmonic in Los Angeles.
Angelov performed her recital debut at the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall presented by Bulgarian Concert Evenings of New York, and has performed solo works at Merkin Concert Hall in New York, Kleiner Saal of the Gasteig in Munich, 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 Stage of the John F. Kennedy Center, the National Gallery of Art and Kreeger Museum, Library of Congress, 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, and at a celebration for the anniversary of Bulgarian accession to NATO at the Library of Congress.
As a soloist, Angelov has appeared with American orchestras such as the National Philharmonic at Strathmore, the U.S. Army Band Orchestra, and Arlington Philharmonic. Abroad, she has performed with the Sendai Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra in Japan, and the Kaluga Symphony and Kostroma Symphony Orchestras in Russia.
Angelov has collaborated in chamber music with artists including Julia Fischer, Mihaela Martin, Nils Mönkemeyer, Frans Helmerson, Benjamin Nyffeneger, and members of the Borromeo and Takács String Quartets. Her festival appearances include Boswiler Sommer (Switzerland),
Kronberg Academy Masterclasses (Germany), IMS Prussia Cove (U.K), Pablo Casals Festival Prades (France), Heifetz International Music Institute (U.S), where she was frequently invited on tours, and Vladimir Spivakov Foundation “Moscow Meets Friends” Festival (Russia).
She has been awarded the Milka Violin Prize at the Pablo Casals Festival in France, the Verao Classico Award at the Verao Classico Festival in Portugal, and won the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) National Finals. She has also won the Amadeus Concerts Emerging Artist Award and has been honored by the U.S. National Society of Arts and Letters. She had received support from the Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Markow-Totevy Foundation, and Vladimir Spivakov Foundation.
Angelov was immersed in the performing arts from an early age through her father's work as a ballet choreographer. She attended the National Cathedral School in Washington DC as the Brock Scholar, and performed regularly at the Washington National Cathedral. From age 12 to 18, she studied with Aaron Rosand and Olga Khroulevitch. She subsequently received her Bachelor degree with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School. Currently, she is completing her Masters under the tutelage of Julia Fischer at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München in Germany.
Angelov performs on a violin by Andrea Guarneri (1659), kindly on loan from Jonathan Solars Fine Violins - New York, and a violin by Philipp Augustin (2012), on generous loan.