Darin Vasilev

Plovdiv's 5th Autumn Salon of Arts opened on 1 September 2009 with Darin Vasilev among its performers, in an evening with the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra that also brought together Venko Poromanski, Katarzyna Łaska, Ivaylo Zvezdomirov and the English keyboard player and composer Jon Lord. His instrument is the guitar, played with the Bulgarian band Te, and in 2011 and 2012 he took part in the studio recording of Lord's Concerto for Group and Orchestra, sharing the guitar parts with Joe Bonamassa and Steve Morse under Paul Mann. In 2020 he appeared as a guest with G.R.A.S. at the Burgas Rock & More festival. Born in Montana in 1979, he played solo guitar in Raider from 1995 to 1998 and guitar in Jester, later in Angel Sky from 2006 to 2009, and in V D V; in the pop band Te his colleagues have been Preslava Peycheva, Yasen Velchev, Kiril Kozhushkov and the drummer Stundzhi. He has recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, has played beside Bobby Kimball of Toto, and has presented a first solo instrumental album, Revelations (2023).