Prof. Emil Yanev

Conductor

Principal Art director

Of “Christina Morphova” female choir

At the House of culture “Dr. Peter Beron” - Sofia

Professor Emil Yanev is one of the most famous Bulgarian conductors, music pedagogues and public figures. He graduated in the State Academy of Music “Pancho Vladigerov” in Sofia, where he studied Choral Conducting in the class of Prof Georgi Dimitrov. He also specialized in the class of Prof Arwid Jahnsons in Weimar.

Prof Emil Yanev’s music life is quite an impressive, energetic and varied one. His artistic career is involved mostly with the Pleven Philharmony, the orchestral ensembles of the National School of Music “Lyubomir Pipkov”, the State Academy of Music “Pancho Vladigerov” and Collegium Musicum Bankya. He has conducted over 2000 concerts in Bulgaria, Russia, France, Holland, Italy, Spain, Greece, Macedonia, Japan etc. His orchestras are laureates of eight grand, special and first prizes from prestigious competitions in Paris, Kerkrade, Neerpelt, Bidgoscz. He has ten long-play records and ten CD releases.

Prof Emil Yanev’s pedagogical activities were held in the National School of Music “Lyubomir Pipkov”, the State Academy of Music “Pancho Vladigerov” and the Academy for Music-and-Dance Arts in Plovdiv, where he achieved some quite serious results in the “Orchestral Playing” and “Choir and Orchestral Conducting”. He is author and co-author of over 20 scientific researches and manuals for the problems regarding the art of conducting. They have been released in Bulgaria, Russia, The Netherlands and USA. Prof Yanev has taught a number of conducting master-classes in the country and abroad. He is also author of many arrangements of great popularity.

In 2003 Prof.Yanev has been appointed principal art director of “Christina Morphova” female choir.

Prof Emil Yanev’s artistic and pedagogical achievements cause his social activities. For many years he has been deputy-chairman of the Union of the Bulgarian Musicians and Dancers (UBMD), chairman and member of different national and international commissions, juries etc. He is a member of the board of the “International Choir Olympics Committee”, the American Conductors’ Association. He is also the Chairman of the Balkan Choir Forum-Bulgaria Association and the Bulgarian-Conductors’ Association (at the UBMD) as well as vice-president for Bulgaria of FECU-EFCU.

Prof Yanev has an individual partition in the “British Music Museum” in London.