Kiril Minko Lambov is a sixth generation composer and musician from a well-known Bulgarian musical family. He has an MA in piano and composition and an MA in symphonic music. His father played oboe and accordion; his grandfather played clarinet. His son, Minko, is a jazz musician and his daughter, Antonia, is a pianist. Kiril is currently a free-lance conductor. He was formerly conductor with the Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra. He was also a conductor with Opera Plovdiv and a conductor with the Shumen Symphony Orchestra.
In 1989, Maestro Lambov won a prize in Quito, Ecuador for composing and conducting his own sonata for piano. Balkanton records, a state owned record company during the Soviet era, awarded him a prize for best original arrangement of works by Bulgarian composers. In 2005, he received an award for best Bulgarian symphonic composition and a prize for his original Symphonic Poem at the Plovdiv Classical Music Festival, 2008.
Maestro Lambov has recently returned from a presentation of his ballet Nunka in Moscow. When we spoke to him, he was on his way to Plovdiv to conduct a performance during the fall music festival. “I don’t have time to dream about the future; I’m busy living it.”