Stefan Remenkov

Stefan Remenkov (1923–1988) graduated from the State Academy of Music in 1950 majoring in Composition under Professor Vesselin Stoyanov and Professor Pancho Vladigerov. From 1950 to 1956 he was assistant professor of Music Analysis at the State Academy of Music. He specialised in composition with Aram Hachaturian at the Moscow Conservatoire where he was warmly congratulated on his Concerto for piano and orchestra No.1. He composed over 80 works, among them a ballet; symphonies and other symphony works; two concertos and a concert rhapsody for piano and orchestra; concerto for violoncello and orchestra; concerto-fantasy for violin and orchestra; music for string orchestra; chamber music – piano and string quintet; sonatas for violin and piano, for flute, oboe and piano; six piano sonatas, sonatina and other piano works; choral and children’s songs; film music. Leading symphony orchestras, ensembles and soloists performed his works. A substantial part of them was recorded by the Bulgarian National Radio and the Bulgarian National Television and released on LP.