Since winning the first prize at the widely acclaimed first Sendai International Competition along with the audience prize and the best Bach concerto performance, the charismatic violin virtuoso Svetlin Roussev enjoys a prestigious international career.
Roussev is a regular guest soloist with orchestras in the United States, Latin America, Asia and Europe. He has performed under the baton of conductors such as Myung-Whun Chung, Leon Fleisher, Yehudi Menuhin, Marek Janowski, Emmanuel Krivine, Francois-Xavier Roth, Emil Tabakov, Dennis Russell Davies, Pablo Gonzalez and Lio Kuokman. He has appeared with various orchestras including the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre National de Belgique, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, and all of the leading symphony orchestras in his home country of Bulgaria.
Roussev has performed a broad range of repertoire with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra as its Artist in Residence every season for the past few years, and once served as Artistic Director. He is an honored artist in Bulgaria, where he received the Presidential Honorary Award and three Cristal Lyra distinctions from the Ministry of Culture. He was honored as an Honorary Citizen of his hometown Ruse.
His discography includes works by Vladigerov, Sibelius, Hartmann, Dvořak, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Martin, Brahms, Grieg, Medtner, Tchaikovsky, Ysaye, Lalo, Saint-Saens, Korngold, Strauss and Waxman for the labels Claves, Arcantus, Fondamenta, Musique en Wallonie, DECCA and Naive.
As a child of violinists, Svetlin began playing the violin at the age of five. At 15, he was accepted into the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. In 2008, he succeeded his teacher Jean-Jacques Kantorow as one of the youngest professors in the school’s history. He is still teaching violin students there today.
Roussev performs on the 1716 Stradivarius “Baron Wittgenstein” violin, kindly loaned by the Bulgarian state.
