Vanya Milanova was born on January the 12th, 1954. She is an internationally renowned solo violinist, recording artist and teacher. She is noted for being a female breakthrough artist in a male dominated field. Her beauty of tone, technical ability and having an unusually large repertoire have been much commentated on in press reviews. She has made a lasting impact on violin performing through being the very first woman to record the entire 24 Paganini caprices during a primarily male -orientated era, she achieved this for the Simax Label, Oslo, 1985. She combined strong technique with beautiful tone without losing the integrity of either. When in her youth, she frequently performed works which were often only attributed to male soloists. 

Vanya Milanova was a child prodigy, having performed her first public concert at the age of three to a packed audience. Also a promising gymnast, she gave up a passion for sport to embark on her journey with music. She studied at the State Music Academy in Sofia and later at the Guildhall School of Music in London where she studied with pedagogue Yfrah Neaman OBE. Before turning only 20 years of age she had already won prizes at many of the major competitions: Tchaikovsky, Queen Elizabeth and Paganini. 

Vanya Milanova has played with some of the most respected orchestras including throughout England, France, Belgium, Italy,Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, South America and South Africa. 
She has made frequent recordings with BBC - London and BBC - Manchester, Norwegian Label Simax and the Italian Label Real Sound. She has made live performances to standing ovations including venues such as the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. 

Vanya Milanova has been awarded 'Freedom of the City Award' in her native Bulgaria for her outstanding contribution to music and popularising classical music to a younger generation.

Alongside being a performing and recording artist, She was violin professor at the prestigious Bilkent University, Turkey and at various other institutions where she disseminated her style to a new generation of young violinists.

Quotations:
World-famous violinist Henryk Szerynk said,”Vanya Milanova is one of the most fascinating violinists of her generation. Charm, tenderness, fiery temperament and in-depth musicality combined with confidence and brilliant technique.” 

David Oistrakh 'Vanya Milanova's Mendelssohn was sensational and her platform presence is very striking, she is a player of majesterial confidence'.

The Times: 'A vital artist for whom technical problems seem not to exist'

The Telegraph: 'she is a performer of king-like stability, a vigorous artist for whom problems did not seem to exist.'

The Strad: 'This was magnificent Beethoven playing in which commitment, imagination and a heart-warming sense of enjoyment were served by a fine presence and extraordinary power'.

Le Soir, Brussels: 'Vanya Milanova's playing of the Walton Concerto was superb, brilliantly virtuoso, introspectively warm, attractively skittish in the Napoletana movement with harmonics perfectly tuned in the finale'.

Dagbladet, Oslo: 'Her special inner tranquility and stability stunned us and the auditorium as did her profoundness'.