Bella Hristova

Bulgarian-American Violin Virtuoso

Bulgarian-American violinist, born 28 December 1985 in Pleven, Bulgaria to Russian & Bulgarian parents. She plays a Nicolò Amati violin from 1655, which was once owned by the famed violinist Louis Krasner. She began her studies on the violin at the age of six. By the age of twelve she enrolled in master classes with Ruggiero Ricci at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and later attended the Curtis Institute of Music in 2003. Here she studied with Ida Kavafian and Steven Tenenbom. She received her Artists Diploma with Jaime Laredo at Indiana University in 2010. Hristova has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Lincoln Center, the New York String Orchestra under Jaime Laredo at Carnegie Hall, as well as with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pasadena, Charleston, Asheville, Greenwich, Vermont, Kansas City, Delaware, Columbus symphonies and Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca del Río, Asturias Symphony Orchestra, Centro Nacional de la Música-la Orquesta, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, and Korea’s Cheongju Symphony Orchestra. Hristova is married to composer David Ludwig (3).