Vassil Kazandjiev
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Vassil Kazandjiev vaˈsil̩ kazaŋˈdʒiɛv (or Vasil Ivanov Kazandzhiev ) (born on September 10, 1934) is a Bulgarian
composer
of orchestral, chamber
, vocal, film
and piano
music
. His work is representative of the 20th century classical music
and 21st century classical music.
Vassil Kazandjiev started his career in conducting at the National Opera in Sofia, where he worked for seven years. During that period he staged and conducted a number of Bulgarian and foreign operas and ballets: Yana’s Nine Brothers and Antigona 43 by Lyubomir Pipkov, Sly Peter by Vesselin Stoyanov, The Boyana Master by Konstantin Iliev, Othello by Verdi, Turandot by Puccini, The Magic Flute by Mozart, Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky, The Wooden Prince by Bartok and many more. In 1962 he founded the Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble with which he had very successful concerts in Bulgaria and abroad for 15 years. Since 1978 he was appointed conductor, and from 1985 until 1993 – Chief Conductor of the Bulgarian National Radio.
Vassil Kazandjiev combines high professionalism and broad musical culture, as well as a highly developed creative intuition. Therefore, his interpretations of works by different authors, styles and epochs are distinguished by depth, stylistic authenticity and pointed modern sensitivity. His art has been immortalized in many recordings of the Bulgarian Radio, Balkanton, Harmonia Mundi - France Kibaton – Japan and other companies from different countries. He has had extremely successful guest tours in almost every European country, USA, Canada, Africa, Japan, South Korea, etc.
In addition to being a remarkable conductor and pedagogue – he is professor of Orchestral Conducting at Pancho Vladiguerov State Academy of Music – Vassil Kazandjiev is one of the most talented Bulgarian composers. He is the author of a large number of symphony and chamber music works: five symphonies, a number of sonatas and instrumental concertos, “Pictures from Bulgaria”, “Live Icons”, “Apocalypse”, “Illuminations”, three string quartets, piano quintet, three trios, "Konzertstück" for 10 instruments etc. He has also composed music for many theatre performances and films. His style is characterised by bright expressivity and artisticism, philosophical depth and a masterly composition technique.
After his graduation from the State Academy in Music in 1957 in the classes of composition of Pancho Vladigerov
and conducting of Vladi Simeonov, Kazandjiev is active as conductor at the Sofia Opera, and since 1962 to 1978 as founder and director of the Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, as well as director of the Symphony Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio (1979–1993). Since 1985 he is professor in conducting at the State Academy of Music - Sofia and since 2009 he is elected Academician
in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
.
Vassil Kazandjiev has been recognized as one of the outstanding Bulgarian composers and conductors of our day. Kazandjiev realised numerous recordings in Asv Living, Balkanton, Capriccio, Capriole, Centaur, Cobra Entertainment LLC, Delta, Era, Gega new, labels. His overall activity contributed a lot for the propagation of contemporary music in Bulgaria and performances and recording of Bulgarian contemporary works of composers as Pancho Vladigerov
, Georgi Tutev
, Dimitar Nenov
, Marin Goleminov
, Georgi Minchev
, Gheorghi Arnaoudov.
He composed five symphonies, and other works for symphony orchestra; music for chamber ensembles; theatre and film music; over 20 marches and military songs, transcriptions, etc.
Bulgarians
The Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.-History and ethnogenesis:...
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
of orchestral, chamber
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
, vocal, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
music
Music
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
. His work is representative of the 20th century classical music
20th century classical music
20th century classical music was without a dominant style and highly diverse.-Introduction:At the turn of the century, music was characteristically late Romantic in style. Composers such as Gustav Mahler and Jean Sibelius were pushing the bounds of Post-Romantic Symphonic writing...
and 21st century classical music.
Biography
Vassil Kazandjiev was born in 1934 in Rousse, Bulgaria. At the age of 7 he started playing the guitar and two years later he learned to play the piano. At the age of 10 he started composing music. His first teachers of composition and conducting were Konstantin Iliev and Dobrin Petkov. In 1957 Kazandjiev graduated from the Bulgarian State Music Academy in the composition class of Professor Pancho Vladigerov and conducting with Professor Vladi Simeonov. Already as a student at the Academy, he won a laureate’s prize for his Symphonietta for a large orchestra at the Sixth International Youth Festival in Moscow (1957 – chairman of the jury Dm. Shostakovich).Vassil Kazandjiev started his career in conducting at the National Opera in Sofia, where he worked for seven years. During that period he staged and conducted a number of Bulgarian and foreign operas and ballets: Yana’s Nine Brothers and Antigona 43 by Lyubomir Pipkov, Sly Peter by Vesselin Stoyanov, The Boyana Master by Konstantin Iliev, Othello by Verdi, Turandot by Puccini, The Magic Flute by Mozart, Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky, The Wooden Prince by Bartok and many more. In 1962 he founded the Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble with which he had very successful concerts in Bulgaria and abroad for 15 years. Since 1978 he was appointed conductor, and from 1985 until 1993 – Chief Conductor of the Bulgarian National Radio.
Vassil Kazandjiev combines high professionalism and broad musical culture, as well as a highly developed creative intuition. Therefore, his interpretations of works by different authors, styles and epochs are distinguished by depth, stylistic authenticity and pointed modern sensitivity. His art has been immortalized in many recordings of the Bulgarian Radio, Balkanton, Harmonia Mundi - France Kibaton – Japan and other companies from different countries. He has had extremely successful guest tours in almost every European country, USA, Canada, Africa, Japan, South Korea, etc.
In addition to being a remarkable conductor and pedagogue – he is professor of Orchestral Conducting at Pancho Vladiguerov State Academy of Music – Vassil Kazandjiev is one of the most talented Bulgarian composers. He is the author of a large number of symphony and chamber music works: five symphonies, a number of sonatas and instrumental concertos, “Pictures from Bulgaria”, “Live Icons”, “Apocalypse”, “Illuminations”, three string quartets, piano quintet, three trios, "Konzertstück" for 10 instruments etc. He has also composed music for many theatre performances and films. His style is characterised by bright expressivity and artisticism, philosophical depth and a masterly composition technique.
After his graduation from the State Academy in Music in 1957 in the classes of composition of Pancho Vladigerov
Pancho Vladigerov
Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist....
and conducting of Vladi Simeonov, Kazandjiev is active as conductor at the Sofia Opera, and since 1962 to 1978 as founder and director of the Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, as well as director of the Symphony Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio (1979–1993). Since 1985 he is professor in conducting at the State Academy of Music - Sofia and since 2009 he is elected Academician
Academician
The title Academician denotes a Full Member of an art, literary, or scientific academy.In many countries, it is an honorary title. There also exists a lower-rank title, variously translated Corresponding Member or Associate Member, .-Eastern Europe and China:"Academician" may also be a functional...
in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is the National Academy of Bulgaria, established in 1869. The Academy is autonomous and has a Society of Academicians, Correspondent Members and Foreign Members...
.
Vassil Kazandjiev has been recognized as one of the outstanding Bulgarian composers and conductors of our day. Kazandjiev realised numerous recordings in Asv Living, Balkanton, Capriccio, Capriole, Centaur, Cobra Entertainment LLC, Delta, Era, Gega new, labels. His overall activity contributed a lot for the propagation of contemporary music in Bulgaria and performances and recording of Bulgarian contemporary works of composers as Pancho Vladigerov
Pancho Vladigerov
Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist....
, Georgi Tutev
Georgi Tutev
Georgi Tutev was a Bulgarian composer of contemporary classical music, one of the main representative of Bulgarian modernism.-Life:He was the son of a Bulgarian father and German mother...
, Dimitar Nenov
Dimitar Nenov
Dimitar Nenov , was a Bulgarian classical pianist, composer, music pedagogue and architect. He studied music and architecture in Dresden; he also studied with the noted pianist Egon Petri...
, Marin Goleminov
Marin Goleminov
Marin Petrov Goleminov was a Bulgarian composer, violinist, conductor and pedagogue.Goleminov was born in Kyustendil; the son of an attorney, he studied law before switching to music...
, Georgi Minchev
Georgi Minchev
-Education:Minchev is a graduate of the Bulgarian State Conservatoire in Prof. Marin Goleminov's composition class. Between 1968 and 1970 he majored under Rodion Shchedrin in Moscow and for several months he studied simultaneously under Aram Khachaturian. In 1972 he received a UNESCO music...
, Gheorghi Arnaoudov.
He composed five symphonies, and other works for symphony orchestra; music for chamber ensembles; theatre and film music; over 20 marches and military songs, transcriptions, etc.
Orchestral
- Concerto for Trumpet (1955)
- Concerto for Piano and Saxophone (1957)
- Divertimento for orchestra (1957)
- Symphony №1 Symphony of Hymns (1959)
- Concerto for Violin and orchestra (1962)
- September 23 heroic ouverture (1963)
- Symphony of Timbres for string orchestra (1963)
- Living Icons (1970)
- Pictures from Bulgaria for string orchestra (1971)
- Apocalypse for orchestra (1973)
- Capriccio for orchestra (1979)
- Illuminations for orchestra (1980)
- Symphony N 3 In Memory of My Father for orchestra (1983)
- Affreschi Sacri for orchestra (1993)
- Symphony N 4 "Nirvana" for orchestra (2000)
- Symphony N 5 Lux AeternaLux AeternaLux Aeterna is an album by Dave Fitzgerald. Released in 1997.This is the second solo album from flute and saxophone player Dave Fitzgerald who was a founding member of Iona. Recorded partly in the studio, and partly in the St...
for orchestra (2006)
Chamber music
- Wind quintet (1951)
- Perspectives - String Quartet N 1 (1966)
- String Quartet N 2 (1970 - 1972)
- Sonata for solo cello (1976)
- Strophes for flute, violin and piano (1976)
- Episodes for clarinet, harp and percussion (1977)
- Reflections for flute and piano (1979)
- Impulses for wind trio (1980)
- Meditation for violin and piano (1982)
- Piano quintet (1982)
- Mirages for violin, clarinet, cello and piano (1997)
- Reflections two cellos (1998)
- Sonata for violin and cello (1998)
- String Quartet N 3 (2000)
- String Quartet N 4 (2010)
Piano music
- Toccata (1957)
- Sonata (1958)
- Triomphe des carillons (1974)
- Equilibristics (1979)
Film music
- Tyutyun dir. Nikola KorabovNikola KorabovNikola Korabov is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. He directed thirteen films between 1956 and 1999. His 1962 film Tyutyun was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Magia...
(1962) - Valchitsata dir. Rangel VulchanovRangel VulchanovRangel Vulchanov is a Bulgarian cinema actor and director. He finished theater directing at the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in 1953. He started working as an assistant director and subsequently as a director. Vulchanov worked in Czechoslovakia between 1970 and 1972...
(1965) - Shibil dir. Zahari ZhandovZahari ZhandovZahari Zhandov was a Bulgarian film director, script writer and cinematographer. He was born on June 1, 1911 in the city of Rousse. At first he studied mathematics and then administrative sciences. His debut in film-making was with the a short documentary One Day in Sofia...
(1968) - Tatul dir. Atanas Traykov (1972)
- Boyanskiyat maystor dir. Zahari ZhandovZahari ZhandovZahari Zhandov was a Bulgarian film director, script writer and cinematographer. He was born on June 1, 1911 in the city of Rousse. At first he studied mathematics and then administrative sciences. His debut in film-making was with the a short documentary One Day in Sofia...
(1981)