Brightmusic Society of Oklahoma presents:
 

Rossitza Jekova-Goza

Upcoming performances: Rossitza Jekova-Goza

Praised for her “lightning-fast technique, exquisite tuning … [and] fantastic phrasing,” Rossitza Jekova-Goza began playing the violin at the age of five and received rigorous musical training both in her native Bulgaria and in the United States. She attended the Dobrin Petkov Music School in Bourgas (Bulgaria), Louisiana State University, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Her most influential mentors were violinists Kevork Mardirossian, David and Linda Cerone, and musicologist Stephen Hefling.

Dr. Goza has made numerous appearances as concerto soloist with orchestras in Bulgaria and the United States: the Sliven, Bourgas and Shumen Philharmonics, the Baton Rouge Symphony, The Chamber Orchestra of the Ozarks, the Northeast and North Arkansas Symphony Orchestras, the Pine Bluff Symphony, the Humanitas Orchestra, and the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra. She is former concertmaster of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and the Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland. For three years (2004-7) Ms. Goza headed the String Area of the Music Department of the University of Arkansas, where she was also a member of the Fulbright Trio and established the UA String Masterclass Series.

In the summers Ms. Goza teaches highly advanced violinists and young artists at the prestigious Encore School for Strings in Hudson, Ohio and serves on the faculty of the Sulzbach-Rosenberg International Music Festival in Germany. This summer she was invited to teach violin at the Oklahoma Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain and coach chamber music at the Heber Springs Chamber Music Festival.

In the fall of 2007 Ms. Goza is joining the string faculty of the University of Oklahoma while continuing to serve as concertmaster of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra.