Chorus master
Biography
Adriana Blagoeva prepared choirs for productions in Sofia, including a symphonic programme mixing Lloyd Webber, Chuchkov and Gershwin in 2005 and Tosca in 2013. Born in 1960, she led the Sofia Boys' Choir from 1989 and founded its youth ensemble in 1997, work that took in tours, recordings and first performances of Bulgarian and foreign choral music. She studied choral conducting with Ana Belcheva at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music, where she became a professor, heading the conducting department from 2012 to 2016, the faculty of theory, composition and conducting from 2016 to 2020, and serving as vice-rector from 2020 to 2024. She died in 2025, leaving a teaching manual on the methods of choral conducting.