Darina Maleeva leads an international concert career and performs in prestigious venues : Steinway Hall in New York, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, Yokohama Theater in Japan, the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona, the Bulgaria room in Sofia or the Musée des Invalides…

She is invited to festivals like The Chopin Festival in Paris, The Classic Festival from Brantome, The Impromptu Festival, The sounds of a summer night in Sweden, Festival Austrian Music Weeks, Sofia Music Weeks.

Graduated from the National Academy of Music in Sofia, from the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris and the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, she improves with Devy Erlih, Roland Daugareil, Sergei Kravchenko. What's more, she specialized in baroque music at the Haute Ecole of the arts of Bern (Suisse).

Holder of a Master at the University of Paris VIII, then aPHD on Cesar Franck, she creates an unpublished piece by the composer, Melancholy, published by Henry Lemoine editions in its revision. She presents – with pianist Pietro Galli – the World Premiere of the complete works for violin and piano by Franck, au festival piano roi from Brantome, in 2001.

Winner of Charles Oulmont Prize of the Fondation de France and the Grand Prix of the International Spanish Music Competition, the Ambassador of France in Bulgaria awarded him the Foreign Affairs Medal in 2004.

Very sensitive to ecological issues, She is the founder of the association “Friends of Music and Earth”, who receives the Medal of the city of Orsay, in 2017.

Darina Maleeva records several CDs and is invited to various television and radio programs including Although, from on France Music.

She creates several contemporary works, as the Concerto for violin and orchestra by David Lampel or the Variations on a Bulgarian Theme for harp and violin by Jean-Bernard Bauchamps (ed. Henry Lemoine).

Darina Maleeva performs regularly in duo with pianist Xavier Lecomte de la Bretonnerie. The peculiarity of the duo is to present singular programs, with rare and unpublished works by great composers. Evidenced by their new CD with the complete work for violin and piano by César Franck.

Passionate about teaching, she is invited for masterclasses in France, Bulgaria or Japan and as a member of the jury of several competitions.

Darina Maleeva plays a violon Giuseppe Testore de 1741.