Our conducting workshop participants will benefit
from the instruction and expertise of professionals who are widely
experienced in choral and orchestral music.
The Varna International Conductors
Workshop faculty are:
Prof. Marin Chonev, President:
Marin Chonev is the founder and leading choir-master of “Morski
Zvutsi”, The Representative Varna Civic Chorus. He is a former
lecturing professor in conducting at the Varna Open University,
Varna Institute of Post Graduate Qualification for Teachers and
the Plovdiv Conservatory. He is the founder and leading choir-master
of the “Choir of Varna Boys” and “Young Men”.
Professor Chonev regularly serves as a jury member at international
choral competitions in a number of European countries. Chonev
is also founder and president of the International Choral Competition
in Varna, which is in the chain of five other European choral
competitions: Tours, France; Debrecen, Hungary; Gorizia, Italy;
Arezzo, Italy and Tolosa, Spain. He has been awarded the Honorable Citizen of the City of Varna award and a National Medal for Exceptional Achievements in the Sphere of Culture and Music, which is awarded by the President of Bulgaria.
Prof. Larry Wyatt, Director
of Choral Studies, University of South Carolina:
Larry Wyatt conducts the Concert Choir and supervises the
master’s and doctoral programs in Choral Conducting. Prior
to coming to USC, he served as Choral Director of Loyola University
in New Orleans. While in New Orleans he founded their Symphony
Chorus and prepared them for performances of over forty major
works with internationally recognized conductors. His choirs have
performed on six division and national American Choral Directors
Association conventions, including a feature presentation of Bach’s
St. John’s Passion in 1992.
Dian Tchobanov, Orchestral Conductor :
Dian Tchobanov is a graduate of the Pancho Vladigerov Musical Academy
of Sofia, Bulgaria where he was a student of Professor V. Kazandjiev.
He is also a graduate of the University of Music and Interpretative
Arts in Vienna where he studied with professor U. Lajovic.
In 2004 he became principal conductor of the Sofia Philharmonic. He is
also the permanent conductor of the Schonbrunn Vienna Chamber
Orchestra. He has conducted the Vienna Radio Symphony, the Budapest
Festival Orchestra, The Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra and
the Philharmonic Orchestras of Plovdiv, Vidin and Pzardjik. Beyond his
activities as conductor he has also played as a pianist with the Vienna
Philharmonic Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa. He has recorded for the
International Society for New Music, Music Management, Aabio d'Andrea
and the Bulgarian and Austrian National Radio. For further information please visit: www.tchobanov.com
