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Dimitar Ninov was born in Varna, Bulgaria, on May
27, 1963. He graduated from the French Language
High School in his native town. In 1987, he entered
the State Academy of Music Pancho Vladigerov
in Sofia, where he earned master's degrees in two
majors: Theory of Music (1992) and Composition (1996).
Ninov studied composition with one of the most prominent
Bulgarian composers, Prof. Alexander Raitchev. His
graduation thesis was a Concerto for Clarinet and
Orchestra, premiered by the Academic Orchestra in
May, 1996.
From
1992-1997, Ninov was employed as a conductor of
the children's choir Bonka Golemanova in
Botevgrad. Between 1994 and 1999, he gave private
instruction in harmony, solfege and other disciplines
in Sofia, and worked as a composer and arranger
in the field of popular music. In 1999, Dimitar
Ninov went to the United States to pursue his doctoral
studies in composition. He was employed as a teaching
assistant in theory of music at the University of
South Carolina, and later at the University of Texas
at Austin.
In
May 2003, Ninov earned his doctorate in composition
at the University of Texas with Spring Symphony,
a three-movement symphony for orchestra. The composer
has produced a body of works for orchestra, chamber
ensembles, choir, voice, and piano.
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