The doyen of our contemporary art of conducting GEORGI DIMITROV transforms every concert into an uplifting spiritual experience, a culmination in the musical life.
Having started his musical career studying how to play the violin under the famous teacher Bozhidar Rosenberg, he graduated from the Bulgarian State Conservatory in 1971 with a degree in orchestral conducting in the class of prof. Vladi Simeonov and violin with prof. Mihail Balkanski. He then specialized with the famous Yevgeny Mravinsky and Arvīds Jansons in St. Petersburg.
Starting in 1972 he was conductor of the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, since 1981 conductor and director of the Rousse Opera House, in parallel he was conductor of the Sofia Opera House. Between 1990 and 1995 he directed the San Marino Symphony Orchestra, and was conferred with the highest award of the Republic – Knight of the Order of Santa Agatha. For the 1995/1996 season, he led the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra again as Music Director and Principal Conductor, executing a number of major projects, national and international tours, including the opening of the European Month of Culture in Plovdiv (1999), broadcast live on Eurovision. In the following years he was director of the Opera and Philharmonic Societies in Rousse and Plovdiv, and since 2013 he has been freelancing.
Georgi Dimitrov has conducted all Bulgarian orchestras, has been invited as guest conductor of famous orchestras and opera houses in Russia, Romania, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, etc.
His impressive string of artistic appearances includes dozens of remarkable interpretations of symphonic, operatic and cantata-oratorio works, premieres of opuses by Konstantin Iliev, Lazar Nikolov, Simeon Pironkov, Krassimir Kyurkchiysky, Gheorghi Arnaoudov, premieres of works by Shostakovich, Bruckner, Mahler, Schoenberg, Bernstein, Prokofiev, etc. The performances under his direction of Nabucco, Aida, La Traviata, Masque Ball, Otello, Don Carlos, Rigoletto and Il Trovatore by Verdi, Puccini’s La bohème and Tosca, Bellini’s Norma, Donizetti’s Love Potion and Lucia di Lammermoor, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, etc. have left vivid impressions.
An accomplished, highly respected musician, Georgi Dimitrov regularly conducts masterclasses and is invited to juries at international competitions. The Südkurier of Baden Württemberg praised him:…the Bulgarian guest conductor Georgi Dimitrov, who places himself and his superb conducting always in the service of the music flourishing under his hands. With his delicate movements, he creates with his “instrument“ – the orchestra, worlds of sounds and immerses listeners in surreal amazement….