Ivan Georgiev
GAIDA (Bulgarian Bagpipe)

Ivan was born in Burgas in 1976.

He graduated from the Filip Kutev National School of Folk Arts in Kotel, in 1995. He specialized in bagpipe and folk orchestra conducting at the renowned Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv, from which he graduated in 1999.

Today he is on the faculty of the Academy and regularly performs with its National Orchestra. Ivan tours with the acclaimed Bulgarian women's choir The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices and as an accompanist to the vocal quartet Slavei. He also makes regular appearances in international piping festivals all over the world such as the William Kennedy Piping Festival in Northern Ireland in 2007.