Dimitar Kossev

Dimitar Kossev is a conductor. He appeared as an instrumentalist, on piano and guitar, in Pop & Rock, the programme the State Opera Rousse gave at the Summer Theatre in Varna on 1 September 2015. Born in Ruse in 1992, he studied at the National School of Arts Prof. Veselin Stoyanov and then conducting and piano at the Prayner Konservatorium in Vienna, graduating in 2014. He first conducted in Bulgaria in November 2013, at the opening of the Franz Schubert International Competition in Ruse, and joined the conducting staff at the State Opera Stara Zagora in February 2016 and at the State Opera Rousse in October 2017, where his premieres include Don Pasquale, Die Zauberflöte, Nabucco and La traviata. The Golden Feather award for 2019 and the Bulgarian National Radio prize for Young Musician of the Year for 2020 are among his distinctions. He subsequently became chief conductor of the State Opera Rousse.