Milka Toledova graduated from the ‘Dobri Hristov’ music high school in Varna in 1975 and in 1979 she obtained a Master degree in Music Pedagogy from the Higher Institute of Music Pedagogy (at present Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts) in Plovdiv.
In the course of her university studies she had multiple concerts as conductor of the Academic Symphonic Orchestra and in 1978 she conducted the performance of W. A. Mozart’s Missa brevis in D (KV 194) by the Academic Chamber Choir and the Academic String Orchestra of the Higher Institute of Music Pedagogy of Plovdiv. In May 1979 she was nominated and won silver medal at the Fifth National Amateur Performance Festival as conductor of the operetta for children Zlatnata Yabalka ('The Gold Apple') by Maestro Parashkev Hadzhiev performed by children from ‘Aleko Konstantinov' primary school and the Academic Symphonic Orchestra of Higher Institute of Music Pedagogy.
Between 1979 and 1982 she taught conducting, piano, music analysis and aesthetics at the Music High School of Shiroka Laka.
In the same time, until 1991 she worked as music teacher and teachers’ trainer for the Higher Institute of Music Pedagogy at the ‘Aleko Konstantinov’ primary school in Plovdiv. There she conducted a 8-year teaching experiment under the Music Education Programme of the Russian composer and pedagogue Dmitriy Kabalevski for promotion of the interest and musical culture of schoolchildren. She was in charge of the on-the-job training of future music teachers and gave object lessons in the presence of students, lecturers and music experts at teachers’ trainings. She conducted the school’s choir and children’s singing band with which she had multiple concerts and nominations at the 6th and 7th National Amateur Performance festivals.
In 1991 she passed a contest to become lecturer of Music Pedagogy at the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv where she works at present. For high achievements in her research, teaching and creative activity Milka Toledova was awarded the Copper Bell academic prize of the AMDFA in 2005 and the Award of the President of the AMDFA in 2009.
In 1989 Milka Toledova took active part to the master class given by the famous choir-master Prof. Vasil Arnaudov and in 1990 she attended and completed with success a training in conducting children’s and young people’s choirs organised by the Higher Institute of Music Pedagogy.
Milka Toledova has been working with the Plovdiv Boys’ Choir since her university studies (since March 1979), first as notation teacher and conductor of the ‘Small Choir’, then as choir-master’s assistant and, since 1996, as choir master. Under her management the choir had many successful concerts in Bulgaria and abroad, participated to national and international choral festivals and contests, to operas and television shows, and made a lot of recordings. In 2006 Milka Toledova was awarded the Token of Honour of the Mayor of Plovdiv for contribution to the cultural development of the city at the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Plovdiv Boys’ Choir ‘Stefka Blagoeva’.
Milka Toledova is member of the Steering Board of the Union of Bulgarian Choirs as well as of the Management Board of the Union of Bulgarian Music and Dance Artists.