Slavcho Nikolov

Slavcho Nikolov, born in Sofia in 1967, is a Bulgarian musician, guitarist and composer, a member of the rock bands B.T.R. and Fondatsiyata, The Foundation, who graduated from the Prince Claus Conservatory in Groningen in the Netherlands in jazz guitar and joined B.T.R., the leading Bulgarian rock band of the 1990s, in 1993, playing on its albums and its tours for a decade; in 2004 he was among the founders of Fondatsiyata, the supergroup of the Bulgarian rock musicians of his generation, and he has played and recorded also with the pop and jazz projects of Sofia and as a session guitarist of the Bulgarian studios. As a composer he has written the songs of the two bands, the music for the Bulgarian theatre and television and the instrumental works for guitar and ensemble in which rock, jazz and Bulgarian folk metres meet, and he has appeared with the Bulgarian symphony orchestras in the programmes joining rock and the orchestra, which have brought the guitarists of the Bulgarian rock into the concert halls of Sofia. He has long been a member of the mandolin quartet Sezoni, one of the few Bulgarian ensembles of its kind, with which he has appeared at national and international festivals of classical and contemporary music and shared in its international prizes. Much of his own catalogue is written for mandolin and guitar, and his playing was included in the 2004 anthology Golemite kitari na Balgaria, which gathered the best of the Bulgarian guitarists.