 | | After graduating from the National Conservatoire of Bulgaria in 1969, he continued his studies at the Music. | | |
| | Conservatoire of Geneva where he received a diploma in orchestral and choral conducting. He also has studied with Michel Corboz.
A prize winner at several international competitions, he himself a jury member for the international Choral meetings in Montreux and at the International Meetings of Choral Singing in Tours.
Conductor of the Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir. During his time the choir received the name «Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares» and started touring abroad.
His recordings made with that ansamble are included in the album bearing the same name, and recieved the Grammy® award in 1990. | | |
| | Assistant conductor to several renowned opera companies in Europe such as Grand Theatre de Geneve, Opera de Lyon, Opera de Nice, Opera de Bordeaux, Opera de Avignon, etc., Zdravko Mihaylov has conducted number of concerts for Radio Sofia, Radio Suisse Romande, Radio France and Radio Cologne.
After founding the Men's Choir and the Mixed Choir in 1971, he took over in 1980 the direction of the Women's Choir of Sofia, a group that had been famous for 25 years. Thanks to his | | |
 | | musical demands and forceful personality, these groups have attained international reputation through their many European tours and recorded more than 15 CD's. | | |
| | Zdravko Mihaylov devoted more than thirty years to the wonderful Bulgarian choir music he lived and burned for. The hand of fate made him devoted even at the final moments of his life to the music he carried in his heart and soul. On November 24, 1998, after a concert in Geneva, Zdravko Mihaylov left the conductor's podium forever. His unforgettable artistic and creative presence remains, along with a multitude of masterpieces, folklore arrangements of the works of the greatest Bulgarian composers and the most beautiful orthodox chants, which he also co-authored. They will outlive time. | | |
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| | Pupil of Prof. Vassil Kazandjiev, Ilia Mihaylov is a Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music, London. He has studied conducting in Bulgaria, The Juilliard School, New York and Conservatoire de Geneve. Among his teachers were Rossen Milanov and Michel Corboz and he has collaborated with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Bernard Haitink, Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Mazur, Ivan Fisher, Danielle Gatti and others.
In 2008 Ilia Mihaylov made his debut as a Guest Conductor of the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra and has worked as an Associated Conductor for the Pazardjik Symphony. Since 2007 he is the Conductor of Studio Primo Chamber Orchestra, premiering a number of original works created especially for that ensemble.
During the season 2000/01 he served as a Music Director for the Choral Society Liderkrantz- Concordia, Geneva and conducted the Gli Musicantini Orchestra.
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| | Ilia Mihaylov became the Artistic Director and Conductor of The Great Voices of Bulgaria in 1999 since when he has led them through several concert tours in Bulgaria, France, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, and Portugal. In 2008 he made his U. K. debut at the prestigious Bath International Music Festival. The completely sold out concert which became standing ovation triumph, was recorded for future broadcasts by the BBC Radio 3.
The Canadian Tour in 2005, of The Great Voices of Bulgaria turned out to be the biggest commercial success of the choir, establishing a record in attendance as only for their L’art Vocal concert were sold 10 000 tickets.
After an invitation of Valery Gergiev early in the same year Ilia Mihaylov has participated in the Moscow Easter Festival, conducting in Kremlin, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, and the St. Peter Monastery.
Transmitting his art into the third millennium he has realized projects together with the world famous film composer Michel Colombier, the trio of the French jazz pianist Francois Raulin, the emblematic Bulgarian musicians Theodosii Spassov and Mitko Shterv, the conceptual artists Missirkov/ Bogdanov, and the cult–status band FSB
Ilia Mihaylov has been a subject of three documentary films, has recorded music for Bulgarian National Radio, the Paris record label Naive and has appeared on twelve albums with his various ensembles.
He is one of the founding members of the Bulgarian Musical Society.
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