Vladimir Lazarevsky

Skopje heard Vladimir Lazarevsky as soloist with the Sofia Philharmonic on 11 March 2023. He was born in 1979 and took up the oboe at fifteen. His diploma and his master's degree came in 2003 from the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia, in the class of Georgi Zhelyazov; a year later he went to Boston for a two-year specialisation as a scholar of the Longy School of Music, under the Boston Symphony oboists Wayne Rapier and Mark McEwen. In February 2013 the Sofia academy made him a doctor of music in chamber music and oboe. He was a laureate of Allegro Vivo in Austria in 2002 and of The Earth and the People in Bulgaria in 2001, and holds state prizes for oboe and for chamber music. He occupies the first oboe chair of the Macedonian Philharmonic and has taught at the music academy of Goce Delchev University in Shtip since its founding in 2007. He plays a rosewood Laubin oboe.