“I met Malina in Lisbon, as we were playing a performance of Mozart’s Aria with the choreography of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. When I later explained her my plans to come to Bulgaria, she immediately put me in connection with different musicians, ensembles and schools. Thanks to her, I also listened a lot of bulgarian music and watched many videos before my stay in that country. We will now meet in Sofia and I’ll have the chance to stay by her mum when I’ll be in the capital.”
Malina Mantcheva is born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and she received her first violin lessons at the age of 5 years old. Afterwards, she has been taught at the music school and then the Conservatoire of her native city. She had a lot of orchestra experiences, namely by the Gustav-Mahler-Youth-Orchestra and in the National Youth Philharmonie.
Between 1995 and 2002 she studied in the Music High School of Cologne with Ingeborg Scheerer. In 2006 she passed the diploma for baroque chamber music with the ensemble Vox Anima of Reiner Zipperling; and in 2007 the diploma for baroque violin in the class of Richard Gwilt.
As an orchestra musician, she played in the Johann Christian Bach Akademie, Collegium Cartusialum, Das Neue Orchester, Kölner Akademie, Capella Augustina, Orchester RheinKlang, Musica Sacra, Concerto con Anima, Neuen Rheinischen Kammerorchester and Duisburger Philharmonikern.
Melodie in Bulgaria 