Dobrin Petkov

Born in Dresden, Germany, Petkov was the son of a famous violin pedagogue, Hristo Petrov [bg], whose students were leading musicians in Bulgaria and abroad.

Mr. Charles Bentinck, a scholarship was granted for the first time to a Bulgarian to study violin and conducting at the Royal College of Music in London.

There were young and fervent years, during which his remarkable personality was built with incredible work, precision and love of art.

He was with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra from 1963 till 1969, and together they had tours in Beirut and Damascus, in Greece, Italy, France, the USSR, Germany etc.

For personal and ethical reasons, he resigned and remained only part-time professor of conducting at the Musical Academy for four years.

[1] In addition to the orchestra's very busy regular schedule, they had tours in the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Italy, USSR and elsewhere, always with great enthusiasm and superlative critic reviews (Venezuela, Romania, Greece, Cuba etc.).

In France they were invited in 1981 in the Théâtre du Châtelet together with the Chicago, Lyon, Berlin and Boston philharmonic orchestras.