Vladimir
Djambazovwas born in 1954 in
Sevlievo,
Bulgaria.
After studying at the Music academy in Sofia he won a DAAD scholarship and graduated from
the Folkwang high school in Essen - Germany, having studied electronic
music composition with Dirk
Reith - (ICEM) and
horn with Hermann Baumann.
Vladimir composes electroacoustic and acoustic music, and music for
theater and cinema. His acousmatic works have been performed in the festivals Wien Modern, ElektronischerFrühling and Elektrokomplex
in Vienna; November Music in s'Hertogenbosch,
Ghent and Essen; BienalInternacional de
MusicaElectroacustica
de Sao Paulo , Brazil, Florida Electoacoustic Music Festival in USA; MusicaScienza in Rome; Inventionen in Berlin
and ISCM World
New Music Days in Hong Kong (2002) and Ljubljana
(2003),and also festivals in Athens,
Sarajevo, Sofia and Belgrade. His music was presented by the Bulgarian National
Radio, WDR, Deutschland Funk, ORF, INA-GRM, ConcertzenderNetherland, Canadian webradio and Radio Ljublyana as well. The confrontation
of the living instrument to the electronic sound is an important point in
his works. So he has composed "Dialog" for horn & tape" (II. Prize in the International composition contest in Greenville, USA), "Meet and past" for marimba
& tape, "Drum X-tet" for percussion player
& computer and "Piano Computrato" for piano
and tape. He won many national and international awards for theatre
music.
Vladimir serves as teasurer
of the executive board of the Society for New Music in Bulgaria
and as a member of the selection committee of the "Musica
Nova -Sofia" festival. He is co-founder off Bulgarian Classic FM Radio and
the Pianissimo Foundation, which organizes the annual international festival
for new piano music ppIANISSIMO in Sofia.
He is active in educational and public spaces: he teaches since 2000 at SofiaUniversity in Audio design, Stage music
and MIDI.