She plays chamber music regularly with Alexandre Kantorow, and has performed with many wonderful musicians like Beatrice Rana, Emmanuel Pahud, Pablo Ferrández, Martha Argerich, Nicholas Angellich, Yuri Bashmet, Mischa Maisky, Renaud Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, James Ehnes, Frank Braley, Yuja Wang, Gérard Caussé, Antoine Tamestit, Bruno Philippe, Aurélien Pascal and Gautier Capuçon. Petrova is a regular guest of chamber music festivals like the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Rheingau Festival, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Festival de Pâques d’Aix-en-Provence, La Folle Journée, Festival International de Piano de La Roque d’Anthéron, and Rencontres Musicales d’Evian.

Liya has been recorded for the French label Mirare since 2020. In spring 2025, she presented her latest album, a stunning Korngold and Strauss album featuring the Korngold Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Duncan Ward, and the Strauss sonata with pianist Alexandre Kantorow with huge critical acclaim. Previously, she had released an equally successful Walton-Respighi album with the Royal Philharmonic and Adam Laloum in 2023, a Beethoven-Mozart album with Sinfonia Varsovia in 2021 and a Beethoven-Barber-Britten recital album with pianist Boris Kusnezow in 2020. Earlier, Liya had released a Nielsen and Prokofiev album on Orchid Classics with the Odense Symphony Orchestra and Kristiina Poska. All of her albums received unanimous praise from critics worldwide.

Liya Petrova was born in Bulgaria into a family of musicians and studied with Augustin Dumay at Brussels’ Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth, Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik Hans Eisler Berlin and Renaud Capuçon at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne. She now lives in Paris.

Deeply committed to artistic programming and musical curation, Liya founded La Musikfest Parisienne in spring 2020, during the first lockdown. Initially launched at Salle Cortot, the festival quickly gained acclaim and now takes place at the Philharmonie de Paris, under the joint artistic direction of Liya and Alexandre Kantorow. In 2022, she also co-founded the Rencontres Musicales de Nîmes with her close friends Alexandre Kantorow and Aurélien Pascal.

Liya has been based in Paris for many years and plays the ​‘Rovelli’, made in 1742 by Guarneri del Gesù, generously loaned by private sponsors, as well as the ​‘Consolo’, made in 1733 by Guarneri del Gesù, on loan from the Bulgarian State.