Georgi Dimitrov
Georgi Dimitrov
Georgi Dimitrov is a student of the famous violin teacher Rosenberg. He graduated from the Bulgarian State Conservatory in Sofia with majors in orchestral conducting under prof. Vladi Simeonov and violin under prof. Mihail Balkanski. He specialized under Yevgeny Mravinsky and Arvid Jansons in St. Petersburg.
Since 1972, Georgi Dimitrov has been the conductor of the Plovdiv Philharmonic, and since 1981 - chief conductor and director of the Ruse Opera, as well as conductor of the Sofia Opera.
In the period 1990-1995 he led the San Marino Symphony Orchestra. He was awarded the highest honor of the Republic - Knight of the Order of Santa Agatha.
From the 1995/1996 season, Georgi Dimitrov was the music director and chief conductor of the Plovdiv Philharmonic. As head of the Opera and Philharmonic Society - Plovdiv, he realized numerous projects, tours in the country and abroad of the ensemble, as well as participation in the opening of the European Month of Culture - Plovdiv (1999), broadcast directly on Eurovision.
He conducted all Bulgarian orchestras and was invited as a guest conductor in Russia, Romania, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, etc. His impressive repertoire includes symphonic works, opera titles, cantata-oratorio works. He regularly conducts master classes in conducting and judges in international competitions for conductors.
The German newspaper "Südkurir" - Baden Württemberg, wrote about him: "We should mention the Bulgarian guest conductor Georgi Dimitrov, who puts himself and his superb conducting always at the service of the music flourishing under his hands. With delicate movements, he creates with his "instrument" - the orchestra, worlds of sounds and immerses the listeners in an unreal wonder"...
For the Bulgarian public, the performance of the opera "Othello" in 2015 under his conductorship remains memorable. The choir and orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio and the singers Krassimira Stoyanova, Marius Vlad, Rusi Nikov, Gergana Rusekova and others take part in the concert. With the ensembles with which he worked, the conductor performed many works by Bulgarian composers - Pancho Vladigerov, Lyubomir Pipkov, Lazar Nikolov, Konstantin Iliev, Georgi Tutev, Petar Christoskov, Simeon Pironkov, Ivan Spasov, Vasil Kazandzhiev, Krasimir Kyurkchiyski, Bozhidar Abrashev, Georgi Arnaudov and others.
On February 10, 2021, Bavarian radio BR-KLASSIK broadcast directly, without an audience, the concert "Italian Night" with soloist Krassimira Stoyanova and the Munich Radio Orchestra, conducted by maestro Georgi Dimitrov. On January 21, the stellar season of the Sofia Philharmonic offered another all-Beethoven program. The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 and Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93. Georgi Dimitrov was on the keyboard, and Lia Petrova was the soloist.
And in February 2024, the great Bulgarian conductor and the Sofia Philharmonic will present a full Mozart program, which includes the Overture "Lucio Sila" Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 3 in G Major, K.216; Symphony No. 36 "Linz" in C major, K.425 with soloist Julian Rachlin.
In 2022, the conductor was awarded the National Award "Acad. Marin Goleminov" for his remarkable creative biography and half a century of experience in the field of symphonic, operatic and cantata-oratorio music.
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