Hristova was born in Pleven, Bulgaria to Russian and Bulgarian parents.

By the age of twelve, she enrolled in master classes with Ruggiero Ricci at the Mozarteum University Salzburg and later attended the Curtis Institute of Music in 2003.

She received her Artists Diploma with Jaime Laredo at Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington in 2010.

[1][2][3] Hristova was a recipient of a 2013 Avery Fisher Career Grant,[4][5] and a first prize winner of the 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions.

[8] She plays a Nicolò Amati violin from 1655, which was once owned by the famed violinist Louis Krasner.