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Anatoli
Krastev graduated from
the Conservatory in Tunisia,
in the class of Gvido Evraet,
and from
the State Musical Academy in
Sofia,
in the class of Prof. Velko Karastoyanov. He
further specialized with
prof. Zdravko Yordanov, Andre Navarra and Janos Starker. Since 1972 he
has been a Professor at
the State Musical Academy "Pancho Vladigerov", Sofia. He
has given Master classes
in various countries including
Belgium, France,
England, Greece, Brazil and
Macedonia. He is
an Honorary
President
of the Academy for Young Talents in Marseille (together with Janos Starker
and Maurice Backet), is a regular
member of
the
jury at the International competitions in Weimar and Prague (Prague
spring), and
has numerous
International and National
awards and distinctions.
His unconditional professionalism, bright artistic presence and
impressive repertoire bring him to the most renowned stages in Bulgaria
and abroad (Europe, USA, Asia, Africa). He
is a regular soloist with
all
the
Bulgarian and a number of
European and American orchestras. The international concert activity of
Anatoli Krastev includes participation in festivals (the Flanders’
festival in Belgium, the International meetings of violoncellists in
Brazil, to name but a few),
solo recitals and collaborations
with artists such as
Mincho Minchev, Stoyka
Milanova, Boyan Vodenicharov, Evgenia-Maria Popova, Dorothy Dorow , Walter
Buykens , Robert Groslot,
and conductors including
Ury Meyer, Georgi Lehel, Joseph Conta, Arnold Katz, Dobrin Petkov, Dimitar
Manolov, Vassil Kazandjiev, Emil Tabakov.
In
2000 he founded
(together with Yosif
Radionov and Mayer Frank) the piano trio “Kinor” and since 2002 – the
violoncello trio “Cellissimo” (with
his two children
Kalina Krusteva and Atanas
Krastev).
He has Premiered over 100
new works many of which are dedicated to him,
has recorded
over 25
Gramophone
and CDs in Bulgarian and foreign recording studios from
the USA,
to the
Netherlands
and Germany,
and has broadcast for
numerous radio and TV
stations
in Bulgaria, France, Belgium, Russia, Hungary, Greece, Brazil, Vietnam.
His CD of
the concertoes
by Camille Saint-Saens, Robert Schumann and
the
“Variations on a Rococo Theme”
by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was nominated by the Paris magazine
“Repertoire” with the highest ratings and with superlatives such as
“his
art has always excited both
audience and the critics
alike and this common view
places the violoncellist
alongside such names as
Janos Starker and Andre Navarra”.
Indeed a recent
CD release by the Canadian Label
“St.Clair” -
Classics
Collection “Forever Gold”
– features
Anatoli Krastev
as soloist in Dvoraks Cello Concerto alongside Andre
Navarra’s recording of the Elgar. |
