Delyana Lazarova’s international musical education influences her wide-ranging repertoire. Born in Bulgaria, she has a natural affinity to Eastern European and Russian repertoire (Dvořák, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Bartók), but feels equally at home in the Viennese Classical period, influenced by her studies in Switzerland, and is also passionate about music of the 20th and 21st centuries.
In the 2023-2024 season, she appeared as guest at the Enescu Festival for the first time, opened the season of the Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck, and makes her debut with the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, BBC Symphony and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestras, Dresden Philharmonic and Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin. In recent seasons, Delyana Lazarova has worked with orchestras such as the Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, BBC Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Göteborgs Symfoniker, Orchestre National de Lille, Fort Worth Symphony, Staatsorchester Darmstadt, NDR Radiophilharmonie, WDR Funkhausorchester, Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Kammerorchester Basel, Klangforum Wien, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Estonian Festival Orchestra and the Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra.
After winning the inaugural Siemens Hallé International Conductors Competition, Delyana Lazarova served as assistant conductor to Sir Mark Elder at the Hallé Orchestra and music director of the Hallé Youth Orchestra from 2020 to 2023. She also assisted Cristian Măcelaru at the WDR Sinfonieorchester and the Orchestre National de France. In 2020 she won the James Conlon Conducting Prize at the prestigious Aspen Music Festival, earlier successes include the NRTA Conducting Competition in 2019, and the Bruno Walter Conducting Scholarship at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in California, in 2017 and 2018.
Delyana Lazarova studied conducting at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste with professor Johannes Schlaefli. She attended numerous masterclasses with Bernard Haitink, Paavo Järvi, Leonard Slatkin, Mark Stringer, Robert Spano and Matthias Pintscher, among others. In addition to her master’s degree in conducting, she is an accomplished violinist with a master’s degree and performance diploma from the Jacobs School of Music in Indiana, where she studied under Mauricio Fuks and received a scholarship for artistic excellence.
