Desislava Vaskova

Desislava Vaskova

She was born in Vidin (Bulgaria) in 1993. From 2016 to 2022, she was a student at the Reina Sofía School of Music, where she studied in the Telefónica Violin Chair under Professor Zakhar Bron.

She began studying the violin at the age of five and gave her first concert in Bulgaria at the age of six. In 2002, she was admitted to the Padre Antonio Soler Integrated Music Centre, where she studied with Polina Kotliarskaya, and in 2011 she entered the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid, graduating in 2015 with highest honors and receiving both the top grade in violin and the Conservatory’s Special Award.

She has taken part in masterclasses with Mincho Minchev, Ilya Kaler, Stephan Picard, Ema Alexeeva, Sergey Fatkulin, Yair Kless, Mauricio Fuks, Natalia Prishepenko, Christoph Poppen, Miriam Fried, Ingolf Turban, Silvia Marcovici, Giovanni Guzzo, and Linus Roth; as well as with Cuarteto Casals, Oliver Wille, Cibrán Sierra and Aitor Hevia (chamber music); and with Mihaela Martin during the Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander. In recent years, she has also participated in masterclasses with Vadim Gluzman, Albena Danailova, and Liviu Prunaru (2024).

She was awarded First Prize in the youth category of the 13th “Violins for Peace” International Competition (2015) and received a Special Prize in the Excellence category at the 4th Marie Cantagrill International Violin Competition (2016).

From 2016 to 2019, she was a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, touring extensively across Europe under renowned conductors such as Jonathan Nott. Additionally, in 2013 she took part in the Penderecki Musikakademie Westfalen orchestral academy, under the direction of Krzysztof Penderecki.

As a student of the Reina Sofía School of Music, she performed with the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antoni Ros-Marbà, Plácido Domingo, Pablo González, Pablo Heras-Casado, Jaime Martín, Víctor Pablo Pérez, Sir András Schiff and David Afkham, as well as with the EDP Foundation Camerata under the baton of Anne-Sophie Mutter. In 2021, she participated in the School’s 30th Anniversary Tour with the Freixenet Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, performing at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Reduta Hall in Bratislava, the Liszt Ferenc Academy in Budapest and the Musikverein in Vienna.

She has been a member of the Haendel Quartet (sponsored by Puertos del Estado), the Stoneshield Quartet, the Brahms and Schumann Ensembles (sponsored by Enagás), and the Albéniz Quartet and Ensemble (sponsored by Prosegur).

Upon completing her studies at the School, she secured a tutti position with the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, and subsequently joined The Royal Danish Orchestra. In the summer of 2023, she appeared as guest concertmaster at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl (Austria). She is currently enrolled in the Concertmaster Artist Diploma programme at the Stauffer Academy for the 2024/2025 academic year. Furthermore, she is set to join the Navarra Symphony Orchestra as concertmaster for the 2025/2026 season.