Vladimir Djambazov

Who is Vladimir Djambazov?

Vladimir Djambazov 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 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, Elektronischer Fühling and Wien Modern, November Music, BIMESP, Musica Scienza, FEMF, the ISCM World New Music Days, the SICMF, Musica Viva and NYCEMF. 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". In October 2012 Vladimir won the 1st prize of the 12th International composing competition "Jazz in 7/8" of the St. George Foundation, USA.