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Sava Stoianov, Trumpet

Born in 1976, trumpet player Sava Stoianov has been a member of the Ensemble Modern since 2002. He is regularly invited to play as a soloist with major orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Savas enthusiasm for the trumpet awoke when his brother allowed him to play a few notes on his instrument. Already at primary school age he played in the youth wind orchestra of his home town of Dobrich (Bulgaria) and took classes with Ivan Babev. At the age of 14, his trumpet studies took him to the music high school in Varna where Ivan Iliev became his teacher. He then continued his studies at the Music Academy in Sofia and graduated there in 1999. During this time, he became first solo trumpeter of the Sofia National Philharmonic Orchestra. After his diploma, he went on to study with Prof. Uwe Komischke in Weimar and Prof. Matthias Höfs in Hamburg where he graduated in 2004. His studies were complemented by master classes with Edward H. Tarr, Jean-Bernard Beauchamp and Pierre Thibaud. In 2009, his portrait CD 'Люлка' (Ljulka) was released by Ensemble Modern Medien.