About


Maestro Dian Tchobanov is General Music Director of State Opera Plovdiv since season 2013 /2014 and since 2024 he is the General Manager.


Education:


He earned his master´s degree at the State Musical Academy (Sofia) and at theUniversity of Performing Arts and Music in Vienna in the class of Prof. Uroš Lajović. The personality of the conductor has been influenced by Sir Colin Davies (Dresden), Dresden and Fabio Luisi (Vienna) and Ivan Fisher (Budapest). 

In 2021 he was awarded the scientific title of "Doctor" in the field of art.



Awards:


Mo. Tchobanov has been awarded with Second and the Special award of "Lovro von

Matačić", International Conductors Competition Zagreb in 2003. 

Special Prize of Austro-Hungarian conductors competition in Budapest 1998

Dian Tchobanov becomes Prize “Plovdiv” 2014 – the most prestigious prize in the field of arts in his home city.


Professional career:

Maestro Tchobanov was a resident conductor of the Croatia National Opera in Zagreb Croatia (2009 – 2022)

He was as well a chief conductor of the Croatia Chamber Orchestra (2012 - 2014);

Dian Tchobanov has been first conductor of the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra (2004 – 2010)

and a chief conductor of State Opera Stara Zagora (2007 – 2012).

Resident conductor of Vienna Schloss Schönbrunn Orchestra (2004 - 2012).


Since 2023 he is a guest professor in conducting in Academy of Music, Dance and Visual Arts "Prof. Asen Diamandiev" – Plovdiv Bulgaria and in East China Normal Unversity Shanghai 2010 – 2015.


Repertoire

His repertoire comprehensively covers the genres of symphonic, cantata-oratorio, opera, operetta, ballet and chamber music. 


He has conducted:

Neue Philharmonie Hamburg (in the Berliner Philharmonic Hall)

Radio Symphony Orchestra -Vienna 

Orchestra of “Arena di Verona” 

Radio Symphony Orchestra -Praha 

Budapest Festival Orchestra 

Dohnanyi Orchestra Budapest 

Concert Orchestra Budapest 

Philharmonie Baden-Baden  

Radio Symphony Orchestra -Sofia 

Radio Television Serbia Symphony Orchestra – Belgrade 

Croatian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra - Zagreb

Macedonian Philharmonic, Skopje; 

Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra; 

Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria; 

Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese; 

Orchestra Palermo Classica, Palermo; 

Orchestra Metropolitana Bari; 

Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo; 

Brasov Philharmonic, Rumania; 

„Oltenia“ Philharmonic Craiova, Rumania 

Fort Collins Symphony, CO, USA

Symphony Orchestra Curitiba, Brazil 

OSRN – Orquestra Sinfônica of Rio Grande du Norte, Brazil


State Theatre Meiningen, Germany

Astana Opera, Kazakhstan 

National Theatre Belgrade, Serbia

National theatre Novi Sad, Serdbia 

National Opera and Ballet Sofia, Bulgaria 

Albanian National Opera, Tirana 

Macedonian opera and ballet, Skopje; 


Ensemble “Cantus”, Zagreb; 

B-A-C-H Chamber Orchestra Yekaterinburg, Russia and many others




Festivals

Maestro Tchobanov has conducted at several famous music festivals:

“Wiener Klangbogen” Vienna, Austria, 1999

“Oper Oder-Spree” Neuzelle, Germany, 2000

“Austrian music weeks" Bulgaria, 2005- 2010

“Varna Summer” Bulgaria 2006, 2007

“Songs of life” Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel 2009

“March Music Days” Rousse, Bulgaria, 2015

“Rijeka summer nights” Croatia 

“Music Biennale” Zagreb, Croatia

“Weinklang” - Burgenland, Austria

“Opera and ballet arts” Stara Zagora, Bulgaria

“Opera Open” Plovdiv, Bulgaria 2014 - 2020

“IV and V international festival of Chamber music” Yekaterinburg, Russia 2016, 2018

“Palermo Classica” 7th international music festival 2017

“Opatija Tribune" - Croatia 2017

“Mythos” Taormina 2018

“Zagerb classic festival” Zagreb - soloist José Cura 2018

“Festival di Mezza estate” Tagliacozzo, Italy 2018, 2019, 2020

“May Opera Evenings” Skopje 2018, 2019

“BELEF” Belgrade – opera gala with Placido Domingo 2021

“Silvester Festival” in the National Cultral Palast Sofia 2022

International Opera Festival "Operalia" – Astana 2023


He was a member in the jury of International conductors competitions: 

-       6th "Lovro von Matačić" International Conductors Competition, Zagreb 2015; 

-       2nd "Antal Dorati" International Conductors Competition, Budapest 2018; 

-       1st “Almaty International Conductors Competition" Kazakhstan 2019:

-       1st “Lake Como” International Conductors Competition Belanno, Italy 2021

-       5th “Nino Rota” International Conductors Competition Matera, Italy 2022 

-       1st Opera Plovdiv International Conductors Competition Plovdiv, Bulgaria 2023

-       The 2024 Dimitri Mitropoulos International Competition for Conducting Athens, Greece

-       Nurzhamal Usenbaeva International Competition for Opera Singers Astana, Kazakhstan 2024