Georgi Minchev (composer)

Georgi Minchev () is a Bulgarian composer born on January 29, 1939, in Sofia, Bulgaria. Education Minchev is a graduate of the Bulgarian State Conservatoire in Prof. Marin Goleminov’s composition class. Between 1968 and 1970 he majored under Rodion Shchedrin in Moscow and for several months he studied simultaneously under Aram Khachaturian. In 1972 he received a UNESCO music fellowship to further his education in the USA, Great Britain and France. At the Conservatoire de Paris he attended the composition class of Olivier Messiaen. Career and awards He has worked as editor-in-chief of music production at the Bulgarian National Radio, as Deputy Chairman and Secretary General of the Union of Bulgarian Composers, and as artistic director at the Bulgarian National Radio. He has been on the jury of many international competitions: Let the Peoples Sing (London); International Composition Competition (Terni, Italy); Premio Vittorio Gui (Florence, Italy); Premio Ancona (Ancona, Italy); International Composition Competition (Berlin, Germany); Olympia International Composition Competition (Athens, Greece); S. Prokofiev International Composition Competition (Moscow). Georgi Minchev has been aw