Denitsa Kaburova

Born in Vidin in 1976. She graduated from the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in 2000, majoring in Choral Conducting in the class of Prof. Krum Maksimov, and in Music Pedagogy. From 2000 to 2015 she was choirmaster of the Vassil Arnaoudov Sofia Chamber Choir, and from 2000 she studied singing and interpretation with Assoc. Prof. Irina Shtiglich. In 2002 she became an assistant in choral conducting at the National Academy of Music and at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.

In 2006 she defended a dissertation titled “The Balkan Eastern Orthodox Monody (14th–15th c.): Aspects of Performance” and received a doctorate. From 2007 to 2018 she conducted the choir Pastoral, later renamed the Irina Shtiglich Choir. Since 2020 she has taught vocal training and choral difficulties at the National Academy of Music “Pancho Vladigerov”. Since 2023 she has been principal conductor of the Petar Dinev Sofia Chamber Choir at the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Sofia and of the chamber choir In Sacris.