Michail Goleminov

Mihail Goleminov (1956–2022) is son of Marin Goleminov. Up to 1984 he studied Piano, Composition, Choral Conducting and Orchestral Conducting at the State Academy of Music in Sofia. In 1985 he moved to Austria. He continued his studies at the Vienna Academy of Music. He studied Composition with Professor Haubenstock-Ramatti, Electroacoustic and Computer Music with Professor Kaufmann, Orchestral Conducting with Professor Osterreicher and Piano with Professor Osberger, Professor Graf and Professor Ude. He contacted Ton De Leeuw (the Netherlands) and Baltin (Russia). He received several scholarships. From 1989 to 2000 he worked at the Doblinger Music Publishers and for the musicology-publishing house in Vienna. He restored music manuscripts in the Musikverein music archives. He created notation scripts used in modern notation. He founded Orange Factory, music publishing house and studio for computer music and music setting. His music is connected with modern vanguard and post-modernist tendencies. He wrote music upon commission by music and art groups. He also wrote the music or made the music setting to productions of the Vienna Burgtheater, etc. He composed music to installations, video and web links, arrangements, techno, dance, hip-hop, etc. He was prizewinner at the Karl Maria von Weber Festival in Dresden for his String Quartet N1 (1983); the Summer Music Festival in Hitzaker (Germany, 1992); the ALEA III Composition Competition organised by the Boston University Fine Art Academy (1989; 1991). He also won two Hambacher Prizes for his Trumpet and Piano Concertos (Germany, 1989), etc. His works were performed at contemporary music forums in Bulgaria, Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, the USA and Japan.