Kiril Ilievsky

Kiril Ilievski graduated from the National Academy of Music in 1982 having trained as violinist and composer at once, studying violin with Mihail Chilikov and Boyan Danailov and composition with Parashkev Hadjiev. He played in the academy's symphony orchestra and later joined Bulgarian National Radio, where from 1989 to 1993 he worked as composer to the Radio Theatre Department. His catalogue includes orchestral and chamber works, among them Symphonic Structures, together with theatre and radio scores, songs and arrangements. He was the director of the Bulgarian cultural institute in Bratislava from 1995 to 2000 and from 2000 headed the cultural programmes and events sector of the Sofia municipality, and as a violinist he won third prize of the violin competition in Middlesbrough; born in Sofia on 27 May 1955, he died in November 2019. He worked at the radio as a music editor as well, and the list of works runs to three ballets, an oratorio, three symphonies, more than twenty-five chamber pieces among them three string quartets, about sixty songs, choral and children's music, and scores for more than fifty radio plays and five stage productions. The Slovak ministry of culture honoured his contribution during the Year of Slovak Music in 1997. His son Konstantin Ilievski is a conductor and composer.