Konstantin Dobroykov

Percussion came before the podium. Dobroykov began at six at the Dobrin Petkov school in Plovdiv, continued at the Idyllwild Arts Academy and Oberlin Conservatory, took a master's in orchestral conducting at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2010 and went on to doctoral work at Boston University, where he was assistant conductor of the Boston Civic Symphony. Back in Bulgaria he conducted at the State Opera in Plovdiv from 2013 to 2022 and has been a regular guest with the Symphony Orchestra of Bulgarian National Radio since 2016; he made his Sofia Philharmonic debut in 2018 and has worked with orchestras in Košice and Bratislava. Since 2022 he has been chief conductor and artistic director of the Sofia Soloists, and since 2021 he has directed the symphony orchestra of the school where he started. A recording he conducted for the Sofia Record Factory brought a Latin Grammy nomination in 2021. He has conducted for the Sofia Record Factory since 2016, and his Slovak connection began in 2014 with the Kosice State Philharmonic, where he returned over several consecutive seasons, alongside work with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonietta Bratislava. The Boston Civic Symphony assistantship ran from 2011 to 2013, after Idyllwild, from which he graduated in 2003, and Oberlin, where he read percussion as well as conducting. In 2018 he took the master class of Daniele Gatti.