Katerina Vachkova was born on 2008 in Pleven. Since 2022, she has been a student at “Panayot Pipkov” National School of arts – Pleven in the classical guitar class of Nikolay Mihailov.
She won 1st places at: Sofia Guitar Festival (2021), Transilvania International Guitar Festival (2022), Pleven International Guitar Festival (2023) in duet with Ralitsa Haidarska, and with scholarship 26th International Music Competition “Hopes, talents, masters” – Dobrich (2023) and the 27th International Classical Guitar Competition – Kyustendil (2024).
In 2020, she started writing original pieces for classical guitar. They are also awarded with a special award in memory of Valentin Valchev and for the best performance of a work by a Bulgarian author and the premiere performance of her own play “Mavi”. She reached the II round of the XIII edition of the national competition for young artists of the “Yordan Kamzhdalov” foundation in the category of composers and also participated in the “Academia Musica” for it.
