Liya Petrova is among Eastern Europe's fast-rising violinists from the 2010s and early 2020s decades. In the mid-2010s, Petrova won a series of prizes, most prominently a first prize at the 2016 Carl Nielsen Violin Competition in Denmark. Her chamber music partners are an august list that includes Martha Argerich and James Ehnes, among many others. After releasing her debut album in 2018 with the Odense Symphony Orchestra, Petrova issued a recital album with Boris Kusnezow in 2020. She returned the following year with an album of concertos by Beethoven and Mozart.