ANTOANETA EMANUILOVA - Violoncello

Antoaneta Emanuilova was born in Bulgaria and moved to Germany at the age of seven. She
studied with Wolfgang Boettcher and Jens Peter Maintz in Berlin and with Joel Krosnick at the
Juilliard School in New York. At the same time, she was a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica,
the ZEIT-Stiftung of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, and the Landessammlung Baden-
Württemberg.
Emanuilova regularly gives concerts as a soloist and has received several awards, including a first
prize at the Domenico Gabrielli Competition in Berlin and the Grand Prix of the “Music and Earth”
international competition. Her extensive chamber music work has led her to collaborate with
musicians such as Jörg Widmann, Nils Mönkemeyer, Anna Prohaska, Amihai Grosz, Lauma
Skride, Pauline Sachse, Martin Spangenberg, Ilan Gronich, and the Kuss Quartet. In 2007 she
won a principal position in the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne. In 2011 she left the orchestra to
devote herself more to making music in smaller ensembles, and the following year became a
member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Oberon Trio.
Emanuilova has given guest performances as principal cellist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra,
SWR Stuttgart, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Komische Oper Berlin, Deutsche
Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and, playing on historical
instruments, the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble. She has also regularly been serving as principal
cellist in the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer, and has been a member of the
Lucerne Festival Orchestra under Claudio Abbado.
Since 2014 she has taught her own cello class at the Rostock University of Music and Theater.