Мичо Димитров

Before the Plovdiv Philharmonic's own audience, Micho Dimitrov appeared as the orchestra's soloist on 2 May 2004. Micho Dimitrov was born in Plovdiv and studied with Tatyana Krasteva at the Plovdiv music school, then with Boyan Lechev and in the chamber-music class of Vladimir Avramov at the Bulgarian State Conservatory, and from 1980 to 1983 with Yfrah Neaman at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, which he left with a Concert Recital Diploma. He won the Jaroslav Kocian competition at Usti nad Orlici in 1967. Invited by Dobrin Petkov, he was concertmaster of the Plovdiv Philharmonic from 1983 to 1988, and of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic at Hilversum from 1989.