Maryan Yovanoski

Since 2011 Maryan Yovanoski has appeared as a soloist with State Opera Rousse, including evenings given in Burgas in the company of Shmilena Sultanova, Ivaylo Dzhurov, Kaludi Kaludov and Daniela Djakova. At the Summer Theatre in Burgas in July 2019, Marjan Jovanoski sang in Vesselina Kasarova & Friends, an open-air concert in which the North Macedonian singer appeared alongside Vesselina Kasarova, Kaludi Kaludov and Anna Ditri. Born in 1976 in Prilep, he had his first piano lessons there with Mile Stojkoski and studied cello at the secondary music school in Bitola from 1991 to 1995, where Pece Mitrevski found the solo voice. From 1998 to 2002 he read solo singing with Ivanka Ninova at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia, took a master's degree there with Ilka Popova in 2016, and in 2006 worked on operatic technique with the bass Nikola Ghiuselev. He made his debut at the Macedonian Opera and Ballet in 2002 as Masetto, sang in the chorus of the Klangbogen festival in Vienna between 2002 and 2004, and from 2007 was a principal soloist of the State Opera Burgas. Spoleto gave him its Baritono Vero prize in 2008 and Pleven a second prize at the Gena Dimitrova competition in 2010; in 2014 he became a first soloist in Skopje.