BIOGRAPHY
Photo: Marc Mittelbach
Boian Videnoff made his first appearance as a conductor at the age of 18 in Germany. Since then different engagements with professional orchestras are regularly following with concert tours throughout Europe and Asia. His outstanding musical talent is always warmly welcomed by the critics and the audience. His teacher Jorma Panula refers to him as very musical and praises his expressive hands and his good memory.
He continues his studies at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in the class of Gianluigi Gelmetti, a former student of Sergiu Celibidache, Franco Ferrara and Hans Swarowsky. He enhances his intensive musical education by also serving as assistant to Maestro Gelmetti at the Teatro dell‘Opera in Rome.
Since 2006 Boian Videnoff supports, as Principal Guest Conductor of the Varna Philharmonic Orchestra young and highly gifted soloist from various nationalities. Following an invitation of the National State Agency of Arts in Shenyang/China, he established a symphony orchestra of more than 50 students from 16 countries, all studying in German Music Academies and toured in China for 14 days, attracting great public interest - all concerts were sold out well in advance and were broadcasted by national radio and television channels. The tour reached it’s culmination at the traditional New Year’s Concert in the Liaoning Grand Theatre in Shenyang before an audience of 3000 people.
In september 2008 Boian Videnoff was chosen by Gustavo Dudamel to conduct the Venezuelan Simón Bolívar Orchestra with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. He has already conducted the following orchestras: I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, the Sofia Festival Orchestra, the Mannheimer Ensemble, the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, the Academic State Symphony Orchestra of St.Petersburg and the Riegelsberger Kammerorchester with major works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Dvorák, Rossini, Martucci, Grieg, Reger, Sibelius, Debussy, Orkin, Strauss, Mahler and Shostakovitch.
The multi cultural influences of his family background and the related life experience - born in Bulgaria, grown in Italy and Germany, graduated from a German-French High School - formed his personality as well as his artistic interpretive capability.
