PETKO GENKOV

Petko Genkov is guitar-player known for his active international career. Since 1990 he has successfully been presented on concert stages around Belgium, Holland, Germany, France etc. His teaching activities come entwined in his career as performer - for instance his teaching classes for young guitarists in his home town, Plovdiv, as well as his master classes in Belgium, Great Britain, Denmark and Germany. His first musical experience was that of a violin player. At 14 he decided that the guitar was more to his liking. Since 1990 he has held regular concert performances. The prominent German critic Wulf Fidler in an article published in the “Nor” newspaper, Bremen, characterised Petko Genkov as “an exquisite master of the guitar”. Genkov has been on concert tours to the USA, France and Norway. In 1999 he made his debut in “Thracia Summer” Music Festival.