Bozhidar Abrashev Jr.

Bozhidar Abrashev Jr. took part in the Sofia Philharmonic's concert for Rashko Mladenov's anniversary, given in Sofia on 1 October 2017, an evening whose performers also included Ludmil Angelov, Lyubomir Denev, Anatoly Krastev and Itzhak Fintzi, with arrangements by Hristo Yotsov and a script by Dimitar Stoyanovich. He finished the Lyubomir Pipkov music school as a pianist in the class of Emilia Kaneva in 1996 and then the National Academy of Music in composition with Georgi Kostov, in opera and symphonic conducting with Ivan Marinov, Boris Hinchev and Atanas Varadinov, and in choral conducting with Lilia Gyuleva and Krum Maksimov, having studied composition earlier with Alexander Raychev. Doctoral work in Vienna followed from 2004 and a doctorate from the academy in Sofia in 2010. He conducted in Plovdiv from 2002 to 2010, in opera, ballet and concert alike, and in 2012 appeared with the Mahler Philharmoniker in Vienna.