Vladimir Djambazov (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)[1], Musica Scienza (2003/Italy)[2], FEMF (2002, 2003/U.S.A), the ISCM World New Music Days (2002/Hong Kong, 2003/Slovenia), the SICMF (2007/Korea)[3], Musica Viva (2008/Portugal)[4] and NYCEMF (2009/U.S.A.) [5]. His music was aired or performed by many European and Asian broadcast companies. Labels such Monopol, Cybelle [6], RZ Edition [7] and Erdenklang published his music on CD and DVD.
In 2005 he was artist-in-residende of the Berlin artistic program of DAAD, Germany [8]. In 2009 he was one of the 13 European composers selected to participate in the NYCEMF in Manhattan, NY, USA.[9] Since 2009 Vladimir is the host of the radio show "Viva La Musica" in the Bulgarian National Radio [10].
Vladimir Djambazov has taught on Audio design and Stage music at the Sofia University.
External links:
Composer's site:[11]
Union of Bulgarian composers:[12]