Victor Trenev - violin

Victor Trenev was born in 2001 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He began playing the violin at the age of six and was soon after admitted to the National School of Music “Lyubomir Pipkov” in Sofia, where he studied with Yulia Angelova. He made his first public appearance only a few months later, and in 2010 won his first competition.

He is a prizewinner of numerous national and international competitions, including the Kocian Violin Competition in the Czech Republic, the Remember Enescu Violin Competition in Romania, and the Young Virtuosos – Emil Kamilarov Competition in Sofia. As first violin of the Kodam Quartet, he won a prize at the International Radio Competition Concertino Praga and received an invitation to perform a series of concerts at the festival in South Bohemia.

He has appeared as a soloist with State Opera Plovdiv, the Sofia Philharmonic, Sinfonietta Vratsa, the Sliven Symphony Orchestra, the Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, Sinfonietta Sofia, State Opera Burgas, the Academic Symphony Orchestra, and others. In 2024, together with violist Viktor Mitsev, he appeared as soloist with the Mozart Virtuoso Festival Orchestra, performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante at Kioi Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

He has also given numerous concerts as first violin of the "Tone" String Quartet. In 2022, as concertmaster of the CEMAN Orchestra, he performed in Croatia, Italy, and Slovenia. At the Cameralia Festival, together with the distinguished Bulgarian pianists Ludmil Angelov and Donka Angatscheva, and the Spanish cellist Gabriel Ureña, he presented Richard Strauss’s two piano trios to Bulgarian audiences for the first time. As a soloist with State Opera Plovdiv, he also took part in the ceremonial opening of the 2024–2025 symphonic season under the baton of Maestro Grigor Palikarov.

He completed his Master’s degree at the National Academy of Music “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” in Sofia, in the violin class of Galina Koycheva-Mircheva. During the 2023–2024 academic year, through the Erasmus programme, he studied violin with Svetlin Roussev and Pierre Colombet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.