Mincho Minchev
Mincho Minchev, violin
Mincho Minchev's art is valued with superlatives on four continents. He has played as a soloist with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the London Royal Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC London Orchestra, London Mozart Players, St. John's Academy, St. Martin in the Fields, St. Goldsmith Orchestra, the Radio Orchestra of Romanesque Switzerland, the Orchestra of the Moscow Radio and Television, the Bucharest Philharmonic George Enescu, the Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic, and others.
He has worked with world-renowned conductors such as Sir Charles Groves, Sir Alexander Gibson, Sir Neville Mariner, Leonard Slatkin, John Elliott Gardiner, and others.
Mincho Minchev's outstanding artistic career is also connected with concerts in the most prestigious halls in the world, including Carnegie Hall in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington, Bolshoi Theater and Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Royal Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London, Hercules Hall in Munich and others. He has made many recordings at home and abroad, including for such labels as DECCA, Balkanton, Capriccio, Integral, as well as for West German Radio (WDR), Radio Geneva, Radio Sofia, BNT, Bucharest and Belgrade Radio and Television.
He has judged prestigious international competitions, including Carl Flash (Great Britain), Rudolf Lipitzer (Italy), Ifra Niemann (Germany), Beethoven (Czech Republic), Jugend Musiziert (Germany), and others. Since 1993 he has been chairman of the Pancho Vladigerov Foundation and chairman of the violin jury of the International Competition for Pianists and Violinists P. Vladigerov. Since 2002 he has been the artistic director of the International Summer Academy, held annually as part of the Varna Summer International Music Festival.
Since 1990 he has been a professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. In parallel with his intensive work at the university and active solo work, he leads master classes in violin in different parts of the world - Mexico, Cuba, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Slovakia, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Bulgaria. For 18 years he has been conducting a masterclass in violin in Arkutino with the assistance of St. Cyril and Methodius Foundation. He annually leads master classes in violin and within the Varna Summer I.M.F and March Music Days I.F. in Ruse.
Mincho Minchev was born in Gabrovo in 1950. He started playing the violin at the age of four. In 1959 he gave his first solo concert, after which he won a number of laureate titles and awards from prestigious national and international competitions, the largest of which were H. Wieniawski (Poland, 1967), Paganini (Italy, 1970), Carl Flash (Great Britain, 1972 and 1974). He studied with Prof. Emil Kamilarov, and in the period 1974/76 he specialized with Prof. Yfra Niemann in London.
He is the winner of the BNR Musician of the Year Award for 1993 and the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Bulgarian Culture for 2010. In 2011, he became the first recipient of the newly established award in memory of the great Bulgarian violinist and conductor, his close friend Emil Chakarov.
In 2024, Minchev again entered a tandem with the conductor Emil Tabakov and with the orchestra of the Varna Opera presented Romance No. 2 for violin and orchestra by Dvořák, Russian dance from Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake", Paganini's Fifth Concerto for violin and orchestra and Suite from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet ballet. The two also partnered in the big New Year's concert at the National Palace of Culture, which celebrated the 125th anniversary of the birth of the great Bulgarian composer Pancho Vladigerov with specially selected works of his.
From 1977 he has played Stradivarius 1716 violin Baron Wittgenstein, bought especially for him by the Bulgarian state.
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