Bella Hristova, violinist

What:              Bella Hristova, Violinist        

When:             Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 7:30 pm

Where:           In the Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall, located in the Music Building on the Iowa State University Campus

Tickets:           $15 general admission, $5 ISU students / 18 & under 

With her “commanding stage presence” (The Strad), Bulgarian violinist BELLA HRISTOVA engages audiences with equal mastery of “impressive power and control” (The Washington Post) and “expressive nuance” (The New York Times). Ms. Hristova’s wide ranging repertoire shines as she performs Arvo Part’s Fratres; Mozart’s Sonata No. 21 in E minor, K. 304; Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” Sonata and selections from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess in this season’s Young Concert Artist Recital on Thursday, October 4.

First Prize Winner in the 2008-09 Young Concert Artists (YCA) International Auditions, Ms. Hristova made her debut in the Young Concert Artists Series during the 2009-10 season at Merkin Concert Hall in New York, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. At the Auditions, she was the first recipient of the Helen Armstrong Violin Fellowship; was honored with the Miriam Brody Aronson Award, the Ruth Laredo Memorial Award, and the Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award for Women Artists; and won the Candlelight Concert Society Concert and the Lied Center of Kansas Concert Prizes. Ms. Hristova currently holds the John French Violin Chair of YCA.

Ms. Hristova has performed extensively as soloist with orchestras including with Pinchas Zukerman and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Lincoln Center and with Jaime Laredo and the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Festival appearances have included The Grand Teton Festival, Music@Menlo, Ravinia’s Steans Institute, and Music from Angel Fire, and reengagements at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Marlboro Music Festival. She has also has appeared on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion on National Public Radio. 

Born in Pleven, Bulgaria in 1985, Ms. Hristova began violin studies at the age of six. Since 1999 she has lived in the United States, studying first with Stephen Shipps, then with Ida Kavafian and Steven Tenenbom at the Curtis Institute, and Jaime Laredo at Indiana University.  Ms. Hristova plays a 1655 Nicolò Amati violin, once owned by the violinist Louis Krasner.

Ms. Hristova will work with area schools and community organizations in a residency sponsored by Iowa State Center’s Martha-Ellen Tye Performing Arts Institute. 

[Surname is pronounced: (huh)ree-stoh-vuh]

For more information:
Visit our website: www.center.iastate.edu

Visit artist website: www.bellahristova.com or www.yca.org/bella

Tickets:
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