Georgi Minchev

Georgi Mintchev (b. 1939 in Sofia ) is 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 Le Conservatoire de Paris he attended the composition class of Olivier Messiaen.

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:London - Let the Peoples Sing, Terni (Italy) - International Composition Competition, Florence (Italy) - Premio Vittorio Gui, Ancona (Italy) - Premio Ancona, Berlin (Germany) - International Composition Competition, Athens (Greece), Olympia International Composition Competition, Moscow - 'S.Prokofiev International Composition Competition.

Georgi Mintchev has been awarded the highest national and a number of international prizes. His Piano Concerto was selected by the International Record Critics Award in USA in 1979 and was the first among the works recommended by the International Composer's Rostrum in Paris in 1981. In 1989 Georgi Mintchev was honoured as "Onorevole Senatore Accademico" and was awarded the Lorenzo Magnifico European Prize of the Accademia Internationale Medicea in Florence.

His works have been performed in Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Cuba, Columbia, Australia, Greece, Belgium, Austria, San Marino, USA, Holland, Spain, Japan, Great Britain and Finland.

He is member of SUISA (Switzerland)and MUSICAUTOR (Bulgaria)