Violetta Todorova

An internationally acclaimed concert violinist, Violetta Todorova has performed for thousands of people around the world. Devoted to connecting the audiences through the universal language of music, her mission is to deliver meaningful experiences in order to revitalize the listeners' senses, including those of beauty and harmony that are inherently present in everyone.

Todorova holds top prizes from a number of prestigious international violin competitions and has performed in the world's greatest concert halls, including the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Symphony Center in Chicago, and Hangzhou Concert Hall in China. She was also the featured soloist at the 2019 inaugural concert at the Ulanhot Grand Theater in Inner Mongolia.

Todorova is the Concertmaster of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and in February of 2019 she was awarded the "Emerging Artist" award from Arts United. Her album of J. S. Bach’s Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin has been released in 2024.

Todorova started playing the violin when she was five years old, making her first public appearance as a soloist with orchestra at seven years old on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. After winning multiple violin competitions in Eastern Europe, and touring with concerts in Northern Europe, at the age of thirteen her talent was noticed across the Atlantic, and the young violinist was invited to the Interlochen Summer Arts Festival in Michigan, which she attended on full scholarship for six summers and where she won the concerto competitions in both the Intermediate and High School divisions.

After her studies at the Interlochen Arts Academy, she earned her Bachelors (summa cum laude) and Masters (with distinction) Degrees in violin performance at DePaul University School of Music, studying with one of the world’s top concert violinists and pedagogues, Ilya Kaler. Her other teachers and masterclasses include Joseph Silverstein, Ida Kavafian, and Zakhar Bron. During her time in Chicago, Todorova also served as an Assistant Concertmaster of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and after an inspiring year of artistic advisory from Yo-Yo Ma, she co-founded a conductorless orchestra under the name of “42nd Parallel”.

After graduation, Todorova held the Concertmaster position with the Illinois Symphony, and was a part of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared as a Guest Concertmaster with the Las Vegas Philharmonic, Chicago Arts Orchestra, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Iowa, South Shore Orchestra, and Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra. She has also played with the Minnesota Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Louisville Symphony and the Detroit Symphony Orchestras.

Todorova plays on a Vincenzo Sannino violin and François Nicolas Voirin bow on loan from the Fort Wayne Philharmonic.