Zhivko Petrov

Jazz, popular music, film scores and large concert projects have kept Zhivko Petrov in unusually wide company among Bulgarian musicians. On 1 October 2017 he was in Bulgaria Hall for the anniversary concert of the actor Rashko Mladenov, an evening that set jazz players, actors and popular singers beside the Sofia Philharmonic, with the pianist Ludmil Angelov also on the bill. Born in Veliko Tarnovo on 25 July 1970, he took his piano degree at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in 1994. Jazz Breakers, formed in 1997, opened Sofia Jazz Fall that autumn; B Jazzy with Beloslava followed, and from Mezhdu dve luni in 2000 he composed, arranged and co-produced her albums. He founded Jivko Petrov Trio in 2007 - Understandable, It's a Dream, Between the Worlds, Change the Way, On the Way - and issued the solo piano albums After 4 in 2015 and Ten in 2019, with a volume of twenty preludes drawn from both in 2022. He has worked with Lili Ivanova, Kamelia Todorova, Hilda Kazasian, Yildiz Ibrahimova, Chico Freeman and Natalie Cole. After 4 brought him the Ikar award in 2016; the Apollo Toxophoros followed in 2020 and the Veliko Tarnovo prize in 2021.