Stratsimir Pavlov

Listed among the artists for the Christmas concert Desi Tenekedzhieva and Friends at the Rousse opera house on 27 December 2012, Stratsimir Pavlov did not in the end appear: the concert was cancelled. Pavlov was born in Varna on 14 February 1976 and took his clarinet diploma at the Dobri Hristov National School of Arts there in 1995, studying composition and orchestral conducting with Milko Kolarov and afterwards at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music. In the United States he read piano, composition and orchestral conducting to master's degrees at the University of Central Arkansas, conducted at Wildwood Park for the Performing Arts and the Arkansas Opera Theatre, and in 2007 founded with Ann Cotard a private school for opera and stage craft in Little Rock. He has conducted the Varna Philharmonic and, from 2015, the Varna Summer Festival Orchestra, and is music director of the Varna opera's musicals. Varna named him young teacher of the year in 2010; the Stoyan Kambarev Foundation awarded him its grand prize in 2013 for Gospel Chorale — Varna.