Artist History Borjan Canev was born in 1973 in Skopje, Macedonia. He graduated as conductor from the Faculty of Music Art in 1997 with Fimcho Muratovski, and received his M.A. in 1998, at the State Music Academy "Pancho Vladigerov" in Sofia, Bulgaria, with Vasil Kazandziev and Ivan Vulpe. In 2001, Canev specializes at the Royal College of Music - London with Neil Thomson, John Carewe and Edwin Roxburgh, where Canev simultaneously works as assistant conductor with Sir Colin Davis on Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni". Canev's master-classes and meetings with conductors Janos Fürst, Daniele Gatti and Sir Simon Rattle are of great importance for his career. Canev has conducted with the Symphony and Chamber Orchestra at the Faculty of Music Art in Skopje, the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Youth Chamber Orchestra of the Jeunesses Musicales Macedonia, the Symphony Orchestra at the State Music Academy "Pancho Vladigerov" - Sofia, the Chamber Orchestra Colegium~Musicum "Bankja", the Symphony Orchestra "Stanislav Binichki" - Belgrade, the Sinfonietta of the Royal College of Music - London, and others. Canev has also participated at the "Days of Macedonian Music Fesival", "Ohrid Summer Festival", "Skopje Summer Festival", "Young conductors, soloists and composers", Sofia, Bulgaria, "Zagreb Summer Festival", Zagreb, Croatia, etc. Since 1999, Borjan Canev has been permanent conductor of the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, working on several significant projects, among which Gustav Mahler's "3rd Symphony" and also he has worked with the "Balkan Philharmonic Orchestra", together with Emil Tabakov. In 2000, Canev conducted the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra in Zagreb, within the ensemble's tour in Croatia. In addition to his engagement in his country, Canev has also performed in Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Croatia, England and Italy, and he is also the founder of the International Chamber Orchestra in London, which consists of musicians coming from the Royal College of Music. His repertoire comprises a number of chamber and symphonic pieces of baroque and contemporary composers, where Macedonian composers play a significant role. He has made recordings for The Macedonian State Television and Radio and the Bulgarian National Radio, and he has also released two compact discs: a promotional disc featuring the Youth Chamber Orchestra of the Jeunesses Musicales Macedonia at the "1999 Ohrid Summer Festival", and the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, entitled "20th Century Music", presenting a number of Macedonian composers.

Press Reviews "...A clear movement, a steady arm, and of already developed professional knowledge and manners, Borjan Canev has imposed himself as a figure who belongs on the stage as a conductor, this having being done in a determined and authoritative way..." (Dimche Nikoleski, "Puls", June 28th 1996) "...Once again, Borjan Canev presented his musical, emotional and contemplative qualities as a conductor in a suggestive manner: particularly good memory and concentracion, rational distribution of emotional resources, a feeling for balance of the orchestral sound, as well as a specifically precious quality of a conductor: suggestive manual technique, with a nurtured,often graceful dance of both hands..." (Vlado Chuchkov, "Vecher", June 5th 1997) "...Conductor Borjan Canev, definetly one of the best students of professor Fimcho Muratovski, fascinates with his accuracy, elegance and a sense of measure in his manual technique.He has demonstrated not only a perfect understanding and elaborated all the compositions that were on the programme of this symphonic concert, but he also has an extremely refined feeling for the music he performs..." (Drago Janevski, Macedonian Radio, May 30th 1997) "...With his outstanding meticulousness and unique capabilities, Borjan Canev has penetrated profoundly into the musical tissue and his expressive technique of the conductor's movement, grants us a future top representative of our music..." (Prof.Aleksandar Lekovski, Skopje, June 2nd 1997) "...At the concert of the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, he demonstrated a reliable manual technique, a balanced feeling for conducting the orchestra and beautiful musical skills..." (Prof.Fimcho Muratovski, Skopje June 5th 1997) "...No doubt - a talent! "The morning tells us what the day will be like" - this is an old saying.Borjan Canev has plastic gesture,ponders the composer's style, excerpts the inherenet rhythm of the compositions, to put it shortly - has a conductor's glow! I can foretell Canev a future!..." (Prof.Dimitar Sagaev, Sofia, December 19th 1997) "...A conductor is born before whom the world's superhighways will be wide open!..." (Prof.Dimitar Sagaev, Sofia, February 11th 1998) "...Borjan Canev has a number of exellent musical features: a sound feeling of rhythm, genuine aesthetic understanding of the compositions conducted, a correct feeling for different author's styles, an exceptional conductor's glow, which is something that one was born with and not something that can be learned from books..." (Prof.Ivan Vulpe, Sofia, June 1st 1998) "...Borjan Canev accomplishes his creative ideas convincingly and consistently because he knows the compositions he performs extremely well.This enables him to be relaxed on stage and to rule the process of performance at all times!He has a clear manual technique which is comprehensible to the performers and is completely subdued to the concept of the performance..." (Prof.Emil Janev, Sofia, June 1st 1998) "...Borjan Canev has had several brilliant concerts with the Symphonic Orchestra of the State Musical Academy, Sofia, and the Chamber Orchestra Collegium~Musicum "Bankja".His utmost professionalism, his delicate, correct and intelligent attitude, his great efficiency and endeavour towards a perfect precision and authencity of the author's text have already made Canev the performers' favourite at the rehearsals.Owning to his immense talent, consistency, his strong will and ambition, making a very fast development at his postgraduate studies at the State Musical Academy in Sofia,he is looking at a great future career as a conductor..." (Prof.Vassil Kazandjiev, Sofia, June 2nd 1998) "...On the 20th of January in a beautiful hall No.9 in the National Palace of Culture in Sofia,popular Collegium~Musicum "Bankja" introduced the first concert for the year 1999 from the cycles "Young conductors,soloists and composers".This time the most of the attention of the audience was concetrated on young and promising conductor Borjan Canev.He has shown all needed qualities for a successful international career, with his excellent inner temperament he was clearly leading the orchestra.It was also clearly seen even on rehearsals that the young Macedonian conductor knew how to gain their attention - they were motivated to work to the high degree of interpretation..." (Alexander Abadjiev - musicologist, Sofia, January 21st 1999) "...The real artistic discovery was coming of the 25 years old conductor Borjan Canev from Macedonia with the Symphony Orchestra "Stanislav Binicki", Belgrade.Eventhough very young,Borjan Canev had his M.A. degree in Sofia.He conducted very difficult scores from Beethoven and Brahms by heart, something that in Belgrade has been done only by eminent maestro Tabakov.In Brahms' Second Symphony in D-major, were shown suggestivity and high musical feelings of the conductor, followed by wonderful and vast overflowing of feelings and strong dynamic shades, breaking of composers melancholy and passion transformed in beautiful dialogues of wind and string corpus..." (G.Krajachic, Belgrade, "Blic", March 8th 1999) "...For Belgrade audience Borjan Canev become a real discovery showing huge elegancy and his young enthusiasm in reaching the peak of the conducting technique.Here, in Belgrade, as well as in Skopje and Sofia previosly, Canev is imposed as superior in representing the extensiveness of Macedonian musical world..." (Dushica Ilin, correspondent of Macedonian TV - Belgrade, February 20th 1999) "...Precise and direct in his demands from the orchestra, Canev succeeds to retain quantum of the orchestra's energy especially in tutti parts. It seems that this young conductor with all of his exactness penetrates its way in our public and becomes generally known as the most stabile conductors figure, that seems its way through the hard paths of the conductor's art..." (Vaska Naumova, Macedonian radio, April 21st 2000) "...As he has shown himself as proper associate to the soloist (Chausson: Poem op.25 and Ravel: Tzigane), suggesting, except that tranquility and refinement with the very first introduction (Pastorale d été from Honegger), Borjan Canev the conductor, (who won his M.A degree under the mentorship of Vassil Kazandjiev from the Sofia Academy of Music) put all his energy, as well as the knowledge in conducting, concentrated on the symphony by Franck. And it has to be pointed out immediately: with his clear vision and certainty gained as much as he was a conductor with greater experience, he made it excellent. Having all that in mind, the bright side of the interpretation elevated in a cosmic joy of the work by Franck, Borjan Canev has managed to finished the concert as something that will be long remembered..." (Snezana Anastasova-Chadikovska, "Puls" May 5th 2000) "...The entire concert has shown that Macedonian people have every right to be proud with their young musicians to whom they gave the trust to perform the first concert in Croatia. In that sense, the conductor Borjan Canev is as young as the soloist Kondratenko and as the same confident in his performance. Macedonian Philharmonic. Orchestra has given all the trust to their young conductor with an enormous belief that he would present them excellent, which has become obvious on the three days tour in Croatia..." (Branimir Pofuk, "Jutarnji list", Zagreb July 19th 2000) "...Borjan has shown himself to be a conductor of real talent and artistic personality. He has a good technique, thorough rehearsal skills and the ability to influence an orchestra immediately by his presence. He is also a person of integrity and good character..." (Prof.Neil Thomson, Royal College of Music, London July 2nd 2001)

Location Skopje, Centar - Macedonia

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