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Gergan Tsenov
Immediately after graduating from Juilliard School, Gergan Tsenov was invited to be the principal conductor of the New York University Symphony Orchestra (NYU Symphony Orchestra). His most recent position as principal conductor was leading the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra in New York. In the USA, where Gergan Tsenov has lived and worked since 1999, he has conducted the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, the Massapequa Philharmonic, the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, the Broadway Bach Ensemble, the Detroit Civic Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra. He has performed concerts at the Kennedy Center (Washington), Carnegie Hall (New York), and Lincoln Center (New York).
In recent years, Gergan Tsenov has devoted his efforts almost entirely to performing and promoting music by Bulgarian composers. He is the founder and musical director of the “Tsenov” Chamber Ensemble in New York. The main mission of this 13-member string ensemble is to present and popularize Bulgarian classical music. In 2010, together with musicians from New York, he performed two concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center with a program entirely composed of works by composer Petko Stainov. Within just two years of the ensemble’s founding, some of the most significant works by composers Lyubomir Pipkov, Alexander Raichev, Lazar Nikolov, Simeon Pironkov, Ivan Spasov, and Vasil Kazandzhiev received their American premieres.
In 2016, together with the New Symphony Orchestra, he performed a concert at Bulgaria Hall titled “The Bulgarian Avant-Garde,” featuring works by composers Lazar Nikolov, Ivan Spasov, Vasil Kazandzhiev, and Bozhidar Spasov. The great Bulgarian composer Vasil Kazandzhiev dedicated his sixth and seventh symphonies to him. In November 2016, Gergan Tsenov recorded the sixth symphony “Cascades” by Vasil Kazandzhiev in the studio with the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, and in May 2017 he presented the world concert premiere of the work at Bulgaria Hall together with the New Symphony Orchestra.
The idea for the current concert, featuring works by Bulgarian composers born in the 1930s, prominent representatives of three generations, and two world premieres, comes from Gergan Tsenov.
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