Nayden Todorov

Nayden Todorov  (Bulgarian: Найден Тодоров; born Plovdiv 1974) is a Bulgarian conductor.

Biography
Todorov was born on 8 April 1974 in Plovdiv. In 1993 he graduated from the Dobrin Petkov National School of Music in Plovdiv in the piano class of Darina Kantardzhieva and trumpet class of Lilia Kovacheva-Toporcheva. As a student he founded the Plovdiv Youth Orchestra. In 1996/1997, he was invited by the Leonard Bernstein Foundation (Jerusalem) for a specialization in Israel, where he worked with Mendy Rodan, conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

Since 1997 Todorov has been the musical director of the Thracian Summer international festival. In 1998-1999, he became the permanent conductor of the North Israel Symphony Orchestra in Haifa. The same year he was invited to be the Artistic Advisor of the Los Angeles International Chamber Music Festival.

In 2001 he made his debut with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, and from the 2004/2005 season he became its permanent guest conductor. From 2005 to 2017 he was the director of the State Opera in Ruse.

In 2017 Todorov was elected director of the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then he has broadened the repertoire of the orchestra and brought a new calibre of soloists and guest conductors to work with it.

Recordings
Todorov has made several hundred recordings for the Music Minus One (MMO) label. He has also recorded for the DanaCord, Hungaroton, and Naxos labels.

Education

 * Dobrin Petkov Music High-School
 * Vienna Music Seminar
 * Vienna Music University
 * Jerusalem Rubin Academy
 * New Bulgarian University

Teachers

 * Prof. Lilia Kovacheva-Toporcheva
 * Prof. Krastju Marev
 * Prof. Alexander Vladigerov
 * Prof. Karl Österreicher
 * Prof. Uros Lajovic
 * Prof. Günter Theuring
 * Prof. Peter Richter
 * Prof. Mendi Rodan

Scholarships

 * 1993 – 1995 	Borghese Foundation
 * 1995 – 1997 	St. St. Cyrill and Metody Foundation
 * 1995 – 1997 	Rotary International, Vienna
 * 1996 – 1998 	George Wachter Foundation, Switzerland