Nayden Todorov

A conductor with 'a plastic and impeccable gesture', he is among the most talented Bulgarian musicians of the young generation. He controls a broad scale of tempi and is capable of forming brilliant culminations and at the same time performs strict control on the dramaturgic development of the music, laid down both in the symphonic and the opera parts. 'A musician to the backbone whose harmonic and smooth movements enchant acoustically and visually.' (Solothurner Zeitung, July 2005) A native of Bulgaria in 1974, the multi-talented European conductor has been a revelation in Vienna, Israel, and Bulgaria, where he currently serves as a general manager and music director of the Sofia Philharmonic. He studied with Karl Osterreicher and Uros Lajovic in Vienna and has gone on to conduct major o