Alexander Tanev

Alexander Tanev studied Law at Sofia University and graduated in 1950. The same year he enrolled at the State Academy of Music and graduated in 1957 majoring in Composition under Professor Vesselin Stoyanov and Conducting under Professor Georgi Dimitrov. He edited the music publications of the Amateur Art Activity Institute (1959-74). Concurrently he conducted the Academic Choir (1962-69). In 1970 he joined the staff of the Music Theory Faculty of the State Academy of Music teaching Composition and later became associate professor (1974) and full professor (1986). He was Dean of the Faculty (1985-93). He worked actively for the promotion of the Bulgarian choral work. He was Secretary of the Amateur Art Activity Council at the Art and Culture Committee (the today’s Ministry of Culture), mem