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Dimitar Kosev
Dimitar Kosev was born in the city of Ruse in 1992. The young conductor and pianist is a graduate of the National School of Arts "Prof. Veselin Stoyanov" in Evgeni Zhelyazkov's class. Immediately after completing his secondary education, he was admitted to the Prayner Konservatorium – Vienna, Austria, majoring in Conducting and Piano under Prof. Maximilian Cencic and Prof. Stefan Möller. In 2014, at the age of 21, he graduated from the Conservatory with full honors. Shortly after, he assisted at the conservatory of Prof. Josef Stolz in the class of opera mastery. He has worked together with Passion Artists and the Vienna Traditional Classic Orchestra. Laureate of Lothar Bandermann's First Prize for Modern Music in the master class Vienna Young Pianists VYP Academy - Vienna 2006 and winner of the Edvard Grieg performance award in 2007. Dimitar Kosev made his debut on the conducting podium in Bulgaria in November 2013 at the opening of the "Franz Schubert" International Competition in Ruse.
At the beginning of 2015, he conducted the New Year's concert of the Ruse Philharmonic. Since February 2016, he has been a full-time conductor at the State Opera-Stara Zagora, and since October 2017 - at the State Opera-Ruse.
He is the conductor of the performances "The Classic Meets ABBA" and "The Classic Meets Queen". He is the conductor and initiator of the performances "45 years of Diana Express - Symphony 2019", "Let me crave you" - Signal Band and Ruse Philharmonic, "Queen - The show goes on", "Children in Time" - Deep Purple & Rainbow tribute concert, "Here we go...again" - Whitesnake tribute concert and "False hero" - Todor Kolev's classic. Puts the world premiere of the rock symphony "Queen's Hits" by Lubomir Deneuve. In July 2016, he conducted the premiere of Kalin Velyov and Tumbaito's performance "Symphonic Fiesta".
At the end of November 2016, at the special invitation of the world-famous mezzo-soprano Veselina Katsarova, he conducted the performance at the State Opera-Stara Zagora, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birth of the composer Krasimir Kyurkchiyski. In 2017, he closed the football match between Barcelona and Hristo Stoichkov's team, conducting the song "Barcelona" by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Cabaye.
On December 28, 2018, he conducted the Christmas concert of the Sofia Philharmonic in the "Bulgaria" hall.
Outside of his conducting career, Dimitar Kosev has also played in the groups Division One, Lumberjack Blues Band, SIGNAL, Jimi Nicoll Blues Band, Paulo Luemba – Family Business, Alive´N Kickin, Kristal Bardess as bassist, pianist and drummer as well as on one stage with Vasil Petrov, Diana Express, Poli Genova, Mariana Popova, Lucy Dyakovska, SIGNAL, Dimo Stoyanov – P.I.F., Nencho Balabanov, Antoaneta Dobreva-Neti, Mania Duet, Nikolo Kotsev, Teodor Koychinov, Divna, Adriana Nikolova-Pechenkata, Panayot Panayotov, Zvezdi Keremedchiev ("Agate"), Konstantin and Alexander Vladigerov, Kalin Velyov, Stoyan Yankulov-Stundzhi.
In 2015, together with the acoustic project "Kristal Bardess", he was selected by the producer of The Rolling Stones group in the top 20 of the world contest for original music "Call for Legends" of the Shure company. He won the "BG Talents" author's music competition and, together with Bozhidara Simeonova, were finalists of the "Burgas and the Sea" competition (2016).
Winner of the JCI award - "The most outstanding young personalities of Bulgaria" in the category "Cultural achievement". In the same year, he was awarded Golden Badge by the Mayor of Ruse Municipality Plamen Stoilov and was elected as the city's cultural ambassador. He is also part of Darik Radio's ranking - "40 under 40" for young and inspiring personalities of 2018.
Conductor Dimitar Kosev has been honored with the prestigious "Golden Feather" award for 2019. The prestigious "Golden Feather" awards have been awarded annually since 1995 for contributions to Bulgarian culture and art. He is also the winner of the "Young Musician of the Year" award for 2020, awarded by the Bulgarian National Radio.
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