Domitar Ninov

Dimitar Ninov graduated from the State Academy of Music majoring in Theory of Music under Professor Bentzion Eliezer (1992) and Composition under Professor Alexander Raychev (1996). He worked as a conductor of the children’s choir Bonka Golemanova in Botevgrad (1992-97). He concurrently gave private lessons in harmony, solfeggio and other subjects (1994-99). He also worked in the field of pop music as a composer and arranger of songs and musicals. One of his songs, White Love, performed by Stefan Mitrov won the fourth prize at the Universtalent International Festival held in Prague in November 2001. In 1999 Ninov went to the United States to make a Ph.D. in Composition. He spent two years at the University of South Carolina where he both studied and taught Theory of Music to undergraduate students. Since 2001 he has studied at the University of Texas in Austin. In the spring of 2003 he successfully presented his doctoral thesis: Spring Symphony composed under the supervision of Professor Russell Pinkston, Director of the UT Electronic Music Studios. Concurrently, he was given an undergraduate course in Theory of Music.

He composed music for symphony and string orchestra; chamber music; solo and choral songs, etc.