Borislav Yotsov

Clarinettist and teacher, Borislav Yotsov taught his instrument at the Lyubomir Pipkov National Music School in Sofia, where Konstantin Wladigeroff was among his pupils. As a player he has appeared with the Sofia Philharmonic from 2006 onwards, in Sofia, in Varna and in Paris, in programmes shared with the pianist Ludmil Angelov and the violinist Svetlin Roussev. Born in Sofia in 1966, he studied the clarinet with Sava Dimitrov at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music, where he later taught as an associate professor, and worked afterwards with Michel Arrignon in Paris and Mark Nuccio at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He took fourth prize at the Prince Philip Competition in Brussels, was named musician of the year by Bulgarian National Radio in 2004 and received the Crystal Lyre as instrumentalist of the year in 2005. He founded the Studio Five Club, completed Nayden Todorov's conducting class at New Bulgarian University, and was artistic director of the New Symphony Orchestra from 2019 to 2021.