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Virtuoso conductor Pavel Baleff records for EBS with the Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra in Heilbronn, Germany.

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In January 2007, the Bulgarian conductor, Maestro Pavel Baleff was named the Chief Conductor of the Baden Baden Philharmonic and Artistic Director of the International “Carl Flesch” Academy. Since December 1998 he has been the Musical Director of the Dresden Chamber Opera. In September 1999 he was given the position of 1st conductor at the Rostock Opera. In 2000 he was made musical director for the length of the season. Since 2002 Pavel Baleff has worked as first conductor and deputy General Music Director at the opera in Halle.

During the season 2007/2008 Mr. Baleff conducts “Die Zauberflöte” at the Semperoper in Dresden, seven operas at the Opera of Halle: “Der Rosenkavalier,” “Die Meistersinger,” “Norma,” “Eugen Onegin,” “Lucia di Lammermoor,” “Hansel and Gretel,” the Ballett “Josephs Legende Feurvogel” and “Carmen” at the Companions Opera ofAmsterdam. His Eropean tour as a Guest Conductor takes him to Italy (Lecce), France (Orchestre de Cannes), Germany (Philharmonie Reutlingen), Bulgaria ( National Philharmonic Sofia), Korea (Masan), Switzerland (Biel) and Spain (Palma de Mallorca).

Pavel Baleff, was born in 1970 in Tschirpan. At the age of four he received his first music lessons and at fourteen he attended a musically-oriented high school where he began intensive piano, conducting and composition lessons. In 1988 he conducted his first concert at 18.

In 1993 he received the Bulgarian Radio prize for the best young musician and produced radio and television recordings with the leading orchestras in the country. In 1994 he had lessons with Myung Whun Chung, Hein Rögner and Ilja Mussin and then continued his Studies at The Music School in Weimar.

Since 1995 Pavel Baleff has been a participant in the Conductors Forum of the German Music Association and has collected valuable experience in master classes with Ingo Metzmacher, Wolf Dieter Hauschild, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Kurt Masur and Fabio Luisi. Furthermore he has worked with the Young German Philharmonic as well as the Young Thuringian Philharmonic.

In 1996 Mr. Baleff won the 1st Prize in the International Competition Carl Maria von Weber in Munich (prize winner concert with the Munich Radio Orchestra in the Hercules Hall of the palace) and in 1999 he won the conducting competition of the German music schools in Weimar with the Herbert von Karajan Foundation. In 2003 Pavel Baleff won the renowned Bad Homburg conductor award--one of the highest German conducting honours.

Mr. Baleff is a regular guest conductor of several national and international orchestras including the following: The National Opera in Hannover (year 2002, “The Rake’s Progress”) as well as at the Komische Oper in Berlin (2004-2005, “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” anad “Fidelio”) and at the Semperoper Dresden (2006-2007 “Die Zauberflöte”). He also performed concerts with the Radio Orchestra of WDR Koeln, with the Munich Radio Orchestra, with the Weimar National Theater, with the Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra, and with more than 30 other orchestras in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Russia, Bulgaria, Italy and France.