Toma Iliev
Bulgaria
Toma Iliev sat at the piano at four, took up the violin at six, and had the baroque violin put into his hands by Stanley Ritchie at Indiana University; then Juilliard's historical performance programme.
- Leipzig Bach Competition prize, 2014
- Named chair at Portland Baroque Orchestra
- Met Museum ensemble in residence
- On tour with Joyce DiDonato
- An eighteenth-century violin
“Spring is my favorite season in Portland!”
In 2014, the Christa Bach-Marschall Foundation prize at the Leipzig Bach Competition. At Portland Baroque Orchestra he holds the Poindexter chair and plays an anonymous eighteenth-century German violin; in the Four Seasons' anniversary season he was the soloist in Spring. A founder of Sonnambula, the Met Museum's ensemble in residence, and of Relic, a period chamber orchestra formed by six Juilliard graduates.
He plays with the Handel and Haydn Society, Philharmonia Baroque and Il Pomo d'Oro, touring America with Joyce DiDonato. In Portland he played Seasons of Bulgaria, solo pieces by Petar Hristoskov.
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