Bulgarian-born violinist Joana Genova has built a diverse career as a chamber and orchestral musician, soloist, recitalist, and pedagogue. Ms. Genova is co-artistic director of Taconic Music in Manchester, Vermont, a nonprofit organization that provides year-round chamber music concerts and outreach programs. She is second violinist of The Indianapolis Quartet, a member of Taconic Chamber Players, and appears as a frequent guest at festivals and concert series, performing extensively throughout United States and internationally in Bulgaria, Holland, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Italy. Ms. Genova has been Artist Associate at Williams College and principal second violinist of the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra since 2007. In the fall of 2022 became Adjunct Professor and Coordinator of Chamber Music at Montclair State University, and Instructor at Bennington College. From 2017 to 2022, she was Assistant Professor of Violin and Director of String Activities at the University of Indianapolis. In the 2023-24 season Ms. Genova is appearing as a guest concertmaster of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and Louisiana Philharmonic. 

Ms. Genova is a top prizewinner of Bulgaria’s “Svetoslav Obretenov” National Competition. She earned her bachelor’s degree at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and her Master’s in Chamber Music at the Rotterdam Conservatory in The Netherlands. Her teachers include Boyanka Shopova, Alexander Spirov, Peter Brunt, Ilya Grubert, and Samuel Thaviu. Joana Genova performs on a Johannes Cuypers violin made in The Hague in 1786.