Violin II
Katia Popov is a First Prize Winner of the International Violin Competition “Svetoslav Obretenov”, The International Violin Competition “Kozian”, and The International Competition for Russian Music. While pursuing her Master’s degree in Performance at the National Academy of Music in Sofia, she served as a Concertmaster of the Sofia Chamber Orchestra and the Academy of Music Chamber Orchestra.
Continuing her studies at the Paris Conservatory in the Violin master class of Prof. Nell Goutkovsky she became Concertmaster of “Orchestre Symphonique d’Europe” (ESO), a vibrant and young orchestra with the ambitious goal to bring together the most talented musicians from every country in the United Europe and make the best young symphonic orchestra in the world. She traveled and soloed extensively with them, playing concerts in front of such dignitaries as the Prime Ministers of all the European Countries and the Royal Families of Spain, Belgium and Netherlands. Ms. Popov has participated in a Solo and Chamber Music master classes with Tibor Varga, Vladimir Spivakov, Iona Brown and had been part of such music festivals as The Bach Music Festival in Oregon, the Mozart Festival in Salzburg with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Brahms Music Festival in Tour, France.
Ms. Popov is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, a Principal IInd Violin in The Long Beach Symphony and serves as Assistant Concertmaster and a Principal Second Violin in the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. She has performed numerous times with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under such conductors as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sir Simon Rattel, and Zubin Mehta. Ms. Popov received her Masters and concluded her Doctoral studies at the UCLA in the violin class of Prof. Alexander Treger. Ms. Popov is an avid chamber music performer, a founder and First Violin of the “California String Quartet” and a Music Director of the “Musical Sunday Afternoons”- popular and versatile music series at the Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church. She is a very active recording musician and has been part of more then 600 Motion Picture and Television sound tracks.
