Alexey Alexiev

Bulgarian composer Alexey Alexiev /Alexej Alexieff/ (1950–2005) graduated from the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv majoring in Piano under Professor Todor Kiuvliev, Choral Conducting under Professor Dimitar Ruskov, Music Forms and Orchestration under Professor Bojidar Abraschev. He also studied Composition under Ivan Dimov, Professor Ivan Spassov and Professor Bojidar Abraschev. After he graduated, he continued to study Composition at the Prof. Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music under Professor Parashkev Hadjiev and Professor Tzvetan Tzvetanov. He studied simultaneously under Professor Alexander Raychev, Professor Alexander Tanev and Professor Vassil Kazandjiev. In 1974 he took part in concerts carried out by the Union of Bulgarian Composers. He worked actively with non-professional choir ensembles such as the Sofia Youth Male Voices Choir, the Saint Sofia Choir (the former Spontaneous Song Mixed Choir), the male voices choir Slaviya, the Mixed Choir of the Transport Workers, the Female Voices Choir at the Emergency Institute Pirogov. He also worked with the professional mixed choir at the Union of Blind People Academician Petko Staynov (1986-99). Since 1997 he has written mainly church music. He composed choral works; a symphony; solo songs; vocal cycles; piano works, etc. The mixed choir Academician Petko Staynov conducted by Petar Matev has performed works of his.