Sasho Mladenov

Sasho Mladenov (b. 1950) graduated in 1974 from the Mining and Geology Institute in Sofia majoring in Mine Electronics. Since school age, he has been member of amateur groups and professional orchestras. He began composing songs in the early 1970s (I’m Still Looking for You). In 1974, he made his first pop song recordings at the Bulgarian National Radio. He was the founder of the Pop Music Ensemble at the Ministry of Transport and was its chief artistic director (1983-85). He also founded the vocal trio Trick (together with Shirokov), the rock bands Turbo, Traffic and the vocal group Highways. From 1991 to 1994, he was representative of PAN Agency (Denmark) for Bulgaria and in 1994-1995, he worked as music director of the Salza I Smiah Theatre. Since 1995, he has been a freelance composer. Since 2004, he is the sound director of the National Thetre, Sofia. He collaborated with the most outstanding Bulgarian pop singers such as Yordanka Hristova, Stefka Onikyan, Rositza Ganeva, Mihail Yonchev, Neli Rangelova, Panayot Panayotov, Rositza Kirilova, etc. Most of them were included in his album Albumat trepach (The Super Album) (1998). He composed over 200 songs for the Bulgarian National Radio, the Bulgarian National Television and the recording company Balkanton; he made over 500 arrangements. He also wrote many musical plays, a lot of theatrical music, music to TV films, etc. For a few years S.Mladenow works exclusively in the field of the symphonic music building – very successfully bridges between her and the pop-rock music never using, meanwhile, the basic pop-rock instruments. His symphonic work The Plague Kills Off won the third prize at the third edition of the national composition competition Ballet Music in 7/8 Time Beat. He writes a chamber music too and some orchestras in England and USA play his works. Since 2005, the London Kaleidoscope Wind orchestra (double wind quintet) performs the world premieres of his compositions made especially for this orchestra.