Georgi Kanev

With the Youth Orchestra Plovdiv, Georgi Kanev appeared as a soloist in the city in 1993. Born in Pazardzhik in 1938, he studied piano in Plovdiv and at the Sofia conservatory, where his teachers included Lyuba Encheva, and later specialised in Moscow. He joined the piano staff of the Plovdiv academy in September 1965, became a professor in 1987 and served three terms as rector.