Boris Nedjalkov

From 2006 onwards Boris Nedjalkov has taken solo parts with the Sofia Philharmonic in its home city, on evenings shared with Jürgen Sacher, Liya Petrova and Charlotte Leitner. He is a cellist born in Sofia who studied with Michael Flaksman in Mannheim and Jelena Očić in Amsterdam, taking his master's degree in 2018 after early prizes at the Young Virtuosos competition in Sofia and the Silvio Omizzolo competition in Padua. The Concertgebouw Orchestra Academy led on to work with the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Dresden, and he joined the Concertgebouw Orchestra on 1 January 2022; his chamber playing includes a trio with Elise Besemer and Shih-Hsien Tsai.