Vladimir Djambazov

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Vladimir Djambazov (Bulgarian: Владимир Джамбазов) (born Sevlievo, Bulgaria, 28 October 1954) is a Bulgarian composer and horn player.[1]

Education

He studied first at the Music academy in Sofia under Professor Karel Stari (1976-78). Then he won a DAAD scholarship and graduated from the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany, having studied electronic music composition with Dirk Reith (ICEM) and horn with Hermann Baumann.

Career

Vladimir Djambazov composes Electro-acoustic and Acousmatic music, as well as pure acoustic music.

He participated in many festivals as the Synthese (France), Elektronischer Fühling and Wien Modern (Austria), November Music (Germany/Belgium/Netherlands), BIMESP (2000,2002/Brazil)[1], Musica Scienza (2003/Italy)[2], FEMF (2002, 2003/U.S.A), the ISCM World New Music Days (2002/Hong Kong, 2003/Slovenia), the SICMF (2007/Korea)[3], Musica Viva (2008/Portugal)[4] and NYCEMF (2009/U.S.A.) [5]. His music was aired or performed by many European and Asian broadcast companies. Labels such Monopol, Cybelle [6], RZ Edition [7] and Erdenklang published his music on CD and DVD.[2]

In 2005 he was artist-in-residende of the Berlin artistic program of DAAD, Germany [8]. In 2009 he was one of the 13 European composers selected to participate in the NYCEMF in Manhattan, NY, USA.[9] Since 2009 Vladimir is co-hosting the radio show "Viva La Musica" of the Bulgarian National Radio [10], one of the TOP 5 music radio shows in Europe for 2011 [11] and holder of the highest Bulgarian radio award "Sirak Skitnik" [12]. [3]

Vladimir won the Grand Prix of the International composing competition "7/8" of the St. George Foundation, USA: in 2012 (Jazz in 7/8) with "KÁRIA" for Clarinet, Trumpet/Fluegelhorn and Symphony Orchestra Video on YouTube and in 2013 (Rhapsody in 7/8) with "Footsteps"- a Bulgarian Dance Rhapsody for symphony orchestra Video on YouTube.

In 2014 he composed Un Viaggio in Italia, a choral-symphonic work with solo soprano.

Vladimir Djambazov has taught on Audio design and Stage music at the Sofia University.[4]

References

External links

  • Composer's site:[13]
  • Union of Bulgarian composers:[14]
  • German publisher of Vladimir Djambazov [15]