Mrs. Yovka Yordanova is a violin teacher of high renown. She is presently a professor at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, Moscow, where the great Oistrakh, Rostropovich, and Neuhaus taught. She is the first foreign citizen to be invited to teach at this world famous music center together with such outstanding masters as Bashmet, Naumov, and Tretyakov.

Yovka was graduated with honors as violinist at the Bulgarian State Conservatoire, Sofia, in 1963 and continued her musical education at the Kiev State Conservatoire postgraduate courses. Her teacher in Kiev was Olga Parkhomenko, a known violinist, Merited Artiste of the Ukraine, pupil of David Oistrakh, and winner of international competitions.

Yordanova taught violin classes at the Music School in Pleven, Bulgaria, the Tunisian State Conservatory, the Byelorussian State Conservatoire. At present she is teaching violin at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory and Central Music School of Moscow Conservatoire.

Prof. Yordanova is a winner of State awards and honors and has been given diplomas for excellent musical education work at international competitions. Ten of her pupils are winners of national and international competitions, soloists of the "New Names" international charitable program, and soloists of chamber orchestras conducted by Vladimir Spivakov and Yuri Bashmet.

Young Stephan Milenkovich, now a famous violinist and winner of international competitions residing in New York, USA, was brought from Yugoslavia to Bulgaria to study with Yovka Yordanova.

Her son Pavel Minev, graduate of Moscow Conservatoire won four first prizes from international competitions. He is the only foreign citizen admitted as soloist to the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic Society.

The Bulgarian Muzyka publishers, Sofia, released Mrs. Yordanova's Primer for Young Violin Players and the Russian Muzyka publishers, Moscow, issued the second revised edition of the Primer in two parts in 2001.

She conducted master classes in Poland, France, Italy, and in Moscow Conservatoire. She took part in the XIII International Violin Competition "Rodolfo Lipizer" where she delivered her report entitled "The Influence of Folklore on Russian and Bulgarian Instrumental Music in the Works by Tchaikovsky and Vladigerov".

As a violinist, Yordanova appeared on stage performing solo concerts and playing solo parts with chamber and symphony orchestras.

In 1972, being a solo violinist of the State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tunisia, she made into a record the First Arab Rhapsody for violin and orchestra by the known Arab composer Salah El Mahdi.