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1959 - Born in Varna, Bulgaria
Education:
1978 - Graduated with
medal for honours diploma from the High School of Music in Varna
1978 -79 - Student at the State Academy of Music,
with piano and Musicology as major subjects, which I studied in parallel
1979 - After winning
a competition, continued my studies at the P.I.Tchaikovsky Moscow State
Conservatory.
1984 - Graduated summa
cum laude from Prof. Yury Nikolaevich Holopov's class in musicology.
Work experience:
1984-86 - Lecturer at the High School of Music
in Varna and the Academy of Musical and Dance Art in Plovdiv (music analysis).
1987 - Research Fellow
at the State Academy of Music.
1990 - Defended a dissertation
on contemporary Bulgarian music, for a PhD.
1990-91 - Worked as an editor at the Balgarska
muzika (Bulgarian Music) Journal.
1991-93 - Editor at the Politrade Publishing
House.
1993-95 - Led a polyphony course of lectures
at the Paisii Hilendarski University in Shoumen.
1993 - Research Associate
at the Institute of Art Studies.
An observer for the Kultura Weekly (1993-1998).
Presently I work as Associate Proffesor at the
Institute of Art Studies with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
I am a member of the Union of the composers (section
"Musicologists") and a member of the Union of jurnalists.
Awards:
Acadmical award for Art studies by the Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences (2000).
Annual musicological award of the Union of Bulgarian
composers ''A book of 1999" (for “Vassil Kazandjiev”, Sofia 1999, 440 p.)
I have participated in a number of international
seminars and scholarly conferences:
1. A seminar on electronic music in Gyor, Hungary,
1985.
2. An International scholarly conference within
the International Music Festival "Varna summer", 1995.
3. Bulgarian-Austrian scholarly musical session
"Vienna musical schools and the Bulgarian traditions: aspects of bringing
together the Eastern and Western musical cultures", Sofia, 1998.
4. An International scholarly conferences "The
music between the East and the West on the threshold of the XXI-th century",
conducted within the International Music Festival "March Music Days", 1999.
5. An International scholarly conferences "Globalization
of culture: Music and Multimedia", conducted within the International Music
Festival "March Music Days", 2000.
I am the author of a couple of scholarly
reviews and essays in the field of the musical
theory and the ethnomusicology:
1. The information language in the ethnomusicology.
2. Musical-psychological aspects of the creative
works of the Bulgarian composers.
3. The ideological cliche in Bulgarian professional
music after 1944.
4. The folk song as an ideal and as an ideological
cliche.
I have participated in group
projects:
1. Contemporary musical culture (1993-1994).
2. Thesaurus of the contemporary music (1995-1997).
3. Methodological problems of the XX-th century
music (1995-1997).
4. The dynamics of the musical processes during
the 199Os (1997-1999).
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