Ivo Yordanov

Ivo Yordanov sang at the Sofia Philharmonic in 2008, in the gala that closed Raina Kabaivanska's master class. He sang the baritone solo in Orff's Carmina Burana in Sofia in October 2018, again in the joint concerts the Sofia Philharmonic gave with the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Republic of North Macedonia in Sofia in February 2025, and in the open-air performance in Skopje in June 2026 alongside Ana Durlovski and Nicholas Spanos. In December 2023 he sang in The Magical World of the Operetta at the State Opera in Varna. He was born in Varna on 3 April 1980, came to singing through the choir of the A. S. Pushkin Russian school there, and read culturology before taking his degree at the National Academy of Music. Prizes at the Puldin competition in Plovdiv in 2005 and at the Maestro Hristo Brambarov national competition preceded the BBC competition in Cardiff in 2007, where he was the only Bulgarian taking part. He has also sung in Plovdiv, Stara Zagora, Los Angeles and Washington. He won the Spoleto singing competition in 2009 and joined the State Opera in Varna as a soloist in October 2019.