Vanya Milanova was born on January the 12th 1954. She is an internationally renowned solo violinist and recording artist. She is noted for being a female breakthrough artist in a male dominated field. Her beauty of tone, technical ability and having an unusually large repertoire have been much commentated on in press reviews. She has made a lasting impact on violin performing through being the very first woman to record the entire 24 Paganini caprices in a primarily male field for the Simax Label, Oslo, 1985. She performed works which were often only attributed to male soloists. Bulgarian born, Vanya Milanova was a child prodigy, having performed her first paid concert at the age of three. She studied at the Music School in Sofia and the State Music Academy in Sofia in the class of Peter A