Marin Yonchev

Marin Yonchev won the television competition Star Academy in 2005. Born in Plovdiv in 1988, he trained at the city's Dobrin Petkov National School of Music and then at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, and returned to sing as a soloist of Opera Plovdiv, where he has appeared in La bohème and Bellini's Il pirata. He has sung in Europe, Brazil and Asia, and in concert with his sister, the soprano Sonya Yoncheva. Nearer home he appeared in the gala programmes attached to Raina Kabaivanska's international master classes, in Sofia and in Plovdiv in 2013 and 2014, and in the 2020 opera gala at the Ancient Theatre in Plovdiv.