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Zefira Valova

Violinist Zefira Valova is a prominent historically oriented performer in her native Bulgaria and beyond, serving as concertmaster in several major ensembles. She is a founder of the Sofia Baroque Arts Festival. A native of Sofia, Valova attended the National Music Academy there. At first, she studied conventional violin playing with Yosif Radionov and Stoyka Milanova, but she became interested in Baroque violin and went on for further studies with Anton Steck and Lucy van Dael. During the 2000s decade, Valova was concertmaster of Bulgaria's Classic FM Radio Orchestra and the Sofia Festival Orchestra. She joined the European Union Baroque Orchestra in 2008, rising to become concertmaster and performing under such prominent historical performance specialists as Petra Müllejans, Ton Koopman, and Roy Goodman. She was concertmaster of the orchestra Les Ambassadeurs from 2011 to 2015 and made some of her first recordings with that group; in 2013, she appeared on Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti per l'Orchestra di Dresda, Vol. 1. In 2015, Valova became concertmaster of the Italian Baroque orchestra Il Pomo d'Oro, and as of the early 2020s, she remained in that position. Valova retained ties and maintained her activities in her home country even after finding success in western Europe, co-founding the Sofia Baroque Arts Festival; it is Bulgaria's only annual festival devoted to early music and historical performance. She also often conducts concerts in the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra's Baroque music series. Valova has also collaborated as a guest with various Western historical performance ensembles, including the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and B'Rock. She has continued to appear on various recordings, sometimes conducting Il Pomo d'Oro in addition to playing the violin; in that capacity, she backed countertenor Franco Fagioli on the 2018 album Handel Arias and on 2020's Veni Vidi Vinci. In 2022, Valova released her solo debut, playing and conducting Il Pomo d'Oro in an album of violin concertos by 18th century composers Franz Benda, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, and Maddalena Laura Sirmen, in addition to Mozart.
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