Milen Slavov, born in Stara Zagora,
Bulgaria is an award-winning composer, arranger, conductor,
performer, teacher and vocalist. He graduated in 1987 from Bulgaria's
most prestigious musical institute "The Phillip Koutev School"
in Kotel, then furthered his studies with a year at the Musical
Pedagogical Conservatory in Plovdiv. His repertoire includes
Bulgarian traditional, East European, classical, contemporary,
gypsy and improvisational styles.
Milen's awards include the 1995
Songwriting Award form the Chudomirovi Praznici Competition,
the Outstanding Student Award from the Koutev Music School in
1994 and a Gold Medal for Folk Song Performance from the 1981
Koprivshtica Bulgarian National Folk festival.
Milen
has lived and performed in the United States since 1997 and
is working on a book / CD package of Bulgarian accordion music
. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he performs,
teaches and composes.
This recording
is for lovers of Bulgarian Folk Music as it contains purely
Bulgarian Folk Music in traditional and contemporary styles,
composed by Milen Slavov himself.
Milen performs
technically demanding folk pieces with great ease and clarity.
His feeling and understanding of Bulgaria's music heritage is
enormous and it shows through in this CD, for which he wrote
and arranged all the music.
Use of
the traditional Bulgarian instruments, traditional folk singing
and melodies, would make this recording a real gift to lovers
of Bulgarian Folk Music.
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