Evgenii Avramov

Evgenii Avramov (1929–2021) graduated from the Law Faculty of Sofia University in 1951. In 1958 he graduated from the National Academy of Music in Sofia majoring in Musicology and Composition under Professor Pancho Vladigerov, Professor Alexander Raychev and Professor Assen Karastoyanov. He taught music theory subjects at the National Music High School in Sofia (1958-66). From 1958 to 1992, he taught Harmony, Music Analysis and Polyphony at the State Academy of Music first as a part-time lecturer (1958-67), then as a regular teacher (since 1967). He received a Ph.D. degree in 1974. In 1991, he was promoted associate professor. The same year he was appointed Professor of Harmony at Shumen University. He composed choral works; symphony and chamber music; children’s songs; he arranged a number of Bulgarian traditional melodies. His songs for male voices choir and symphony orchestra were four times prize-winning at the Festival of the Military Song in Veliko Tarnovo. He published pedagogic and scientific research works.