Vladimir Ivanoff

Born in Bulgaria, Vladimir Ivanoff received his doctorate in musicology at Munich University, studied lute and historical performance practice at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and at the Music Academy, Karlsruhe, received training in percussions with different traditional musicians. After post-doctoral research projects in Venice and Munich, he started lecturing at various European and American universities. He published several books, contributes regularly to music journals and encyclopaedias and lectures at international symposia and conferences.

Ivanoff is founder and musical director of the ensembles Sarband, Vox, Metamorphoses and L'Orient Imaginaire with whom he performs in concerts, scenic projects, radio-, TV- and CD-productions all over Europe, Asia and in the USA.

As a CD-producer, composer and arranger he works with numerous artists from the most diverse backgrounds, amongst them: Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Megapolis, Concerto Köln, The King’s Singers, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He received two Grammy-Award-Nominations in 1992 and two Echo-Klassik-Awards in 2003 and 2006.

In 2007, he was awarded by the Regione Apuglia with the Premio Mousiké for the diffusion of Early Music in the Mediterranean.

Since 1986, he endeavours not only to mediate between the theory and practice of music but as well illuminates and strengthens the connecting threads between the Orient and the Occident. He revives and gives new spirit to what can sometimes be described as the rather dry area of Early Music without dispensing with musicological scrutiny.