Vladimir Djambazov
Vladimir Djambazov (Bulgarian: Владимир Джамбазов) (born Sevlievo, Bulgaria, 28 October 1954) is a Bulgarian composer and horn player. He studied first at the Music academy in Sofia. Then he won a DAAD scholarship and graduated from the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany, having studied electronic music composition with Dirk Reith (ICEM) and horn with Hermann Baumann.
Vladimir Djambazov composes Electro-acoustic and Acousmatic music, as well as pure acoustic music.
He participated in many festivals as the Synthese (France), Elektronischer Fühling and Wien Modern (Austria), November Music (Germany/Belgium/Netherlands), BIMESP (2000,2002/Brazil), Musica Scienza (2003/Italy), FEMF (2002, 2003/U.S.A), the ISCM World New Music Days (2002/Hong Kong, 2003/Slovenia), the SICMF (2007/Korea), Musica Viva (2008/Portugal) and NYCEMF (2009/U.S.A.) . His music was aired or performed by many European and Asian broadcast companies. Labels such Monopol, Cybelle , RZ Edition and Erdenklang published his music on CD and DVD.
In 2005 he was artist-in-residende of the Berlin artistic program of DAAD, Germany . In 2009 he was one of the 13 European composers selected to participate in the NYCEMF in Manhattan, NY, USA. Since 2009 Vladimir is co-hosting the radio show "Viva La Musica" of the Bulgarian National Radio , one of the TOP 5 music radio shows in Europe for 2011 and holder of the highest Bulgarian radio award "Sirak Skitnik" . Vladimir won twice the Grand Prix of the International composing competition "7/8" of the St. George Foundation, USA: in 2012 (Jazz in 7/8) with "KÁRIA" for Clarinet, Trumpet/Fluegelhorn and Symphony Orchestra Video on YouTube and in 2013 (Rhapsody in 7/8) with "Footsteps"- a Bulgarian Dance Rhapsody for symphony orchestra Video on YouTube. In 2014 he composed Un Viaggio in Italia, a choral-symphonic work with solo soprano.
Vladimir Djambazov has taught on Audio design and Stage music at the Sofia University.