Elitsa Bogdanova

Bulgarian violist, Elitsa Bogdanova completed her studies at the National Music School in Sofia and later at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she developed a keen interest in historical performance.

Elitsa is a member of the award-winning Consone Quartet, BBC New Generation Artists (2019-2021) and Borletti Buitoni Trust Fellowship recipients. The quartet has performed extensively throughout the UK and Europe and in North and South America. The group has recorded the complete quartet works of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn on the Scottish Label, Linn Records.

Elitsa enjoys partaking in a variety of projects with chamber groups, orchestras and period instrument ensembles around the UK and abroad. She plays principal viola in La Serenissima and has guest-led the viola sections of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Florilegium, Irish Baroque Orchestra, La Nuova Musica, 12 Ensemble, United Strings of Europe and the London Contemporary Orchestra. She also regularly joins the Aurora Orchestra for some of their memorised projects.

As a session musician Elitsa has recorded for pop artists, television, advertisements and films, including ‘Suspiria’ by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, 'Midsommer' by Bobby Krlic, The Matrix Resurrections by Lana Wachowski and Armando Iannucci's David Copperfield.