Стоимен Пеев

A violinist from Varna who took up the instrument at eleven and went on to win the national competitions in Provadia, Haskovo and Varna while still a student. Since 2011 he has been concertmaster of the Sofia Soloists chamber ensemble, and since 2014 first violin of the Sofia Quartet at the Sofia Philharmonic; as a soloist with the ensemble he has given several world premieres of contemporary works and recorded extensively for Bulgarian National Radio. He was born in 1988 and won his early prizes from Antoaneta Ilieva's class at the Dobri Hristov National School of Arts in Varna, later graduating from the Prof. Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music with Ginka Gichkova and taking prizes at the Pancho Vladigerov competition in Shumen and the Emil Kamilarov competition in Sofia. In November 2015 he played the Tchaikovsky concerto at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space under Mitsuyoshi Oikawa. He completed a doctorate at the Academy in 2022 and has taught in its string department as a senior assistant professor since 2023.