Lily Popova was born in Varna, Bulgaria, where she began studying the piano at the age of five. At ten she entered the Music School in her home city. By the time she was sixteen, Ms. Popova had performed numerous recitals, entered and won many national and international competitions including the First Prize at the Stresa International Piano Competition in Italy. In the following year she received a scholarship to continue her musical education in the United States and arrived in Los Angeles at the age of seventeen.

Over the last several years Lily Popova has received many important awards. Among others, she won the First Prize at the Bronislaw Kaper Piano Competition, sponsored by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Music Center Spotlight Award for Classical Music, the Pasadena Fine Arts Club scholarship, and the First Prize at the Joanna Hodges International Competition in Palm Springs. She has performed many solo and chamber music recitals all over the United States, in her native Bulgaria and in Italy. She has been the soloist for such noted ensembles as the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, with the Mexico City Youth Orchestra under Jorge Mester in Mexico City and with the International Chamber Ensemble of Rome, Italy.

Lily Popova has appeared several times on live radio broadcasts for the Classical music stations in Los Angeles, as well as on CBS TV-Channel 2. She has been participant in major fund-raising events, such as a televised performance for ACT for MS Foundation in Palm Springs, which benefits research and treatment of Multiple Sclerosis.

Ms. Popova has recorded a solo piano album entitled "Naked Soul" with original music by Italian composer Marco Missinato. The album was released in the spring of 2001, on the independent label MusicM. She has also ventured into the world of film music, co-composing and arranging the music for the short film "Duck, Duck, Goose".

Lily Popova performs and tours regularly; most recently she performed in Rome, Italy with piano quartet "St. Ivo" and in New York City, where she performed at the Embassy of Argentina.