Yordan Kamdzhalov, Bulgaria
Born in Targovishte in 1980, Yordan Kamdzhalov studied at the State Music Academy in Sofia and at the Hanns Eisler Music Academy in Berlin. He has attended master classes and workshops under, among others, Kurt Masur, Bernard Haitink, Sir Simon Rattle and Daniel Barenboim.
From 2007 to 2009 Yordan Kamdzhalov was Conductor and Director of Studies at the Schlosstheater in Rheinsberg; in 2006 he assumed the musical direction of an opera production at the Komische Oper in Berlin. He is Artistic Director and Conductor of the Berlin chamber ensemble Innorelatio, which he founded. As a participant at the Lucerne Festival Academy in 2007 he was given the opportunity to work with Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös.
During the Besançon Conducting Competition he conducted the Orchestre National d’Île de France; in the course of his studies he has conducted orchestras such as the Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, the Brandenburg State Orchestra of Frankfurt and the Philharmonic Orchestra of New Brandenburg. In 2009 he won the 4th Jorma Panula Conducting Competition in Finland.
