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Quickly gaining notice as a young conductor to watch, Bulgarian Danail Rachev begins his new position as Assistant Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra in September 2008. Rachev was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 2005, where he continues to lead classical concerts, pops programs, and family concerts, as well as school and outreach programs, throughout the 2007-08 season. Reviewing his subscription debut The Dallas Morning News wrote: "One of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's best concerts of the past year....start to finish, assistant conductor Danail Rachev got the music unfailingly right, and viscerally compelling."
In the last year Rachev also led concerts with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, City Music Cleveland Chamber Orchestra and Dallas' Camerata Winds, with which this season, he began tenure as Artistic Director. Rachev returns to City Music Cleveland in the 2008-2009 season and makes his debut with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. In 2002-03 Danail Rachev was the first ever Conducting Fellow of the New World Symphony where he was fortunate to study with Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas and work alongside him on many occasions. His debut and subsequent appearances in numerous subscription, family, and chamber music concerts were met with consistent critical acclaim. From 2002 to 2005, he served as conductor of the Juilliard PreCollege Symphony, leading that orchestra in a variety of concerts including an Alice Tully Hall appearance. He has also served as cover conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and assistant conductor of the Columbia Orchestra. A gifted collaborator with singers, Rachev has led several opera productions including Copland's The Tender Land with Baltimore's Opera Vivente and Donizetti's Don Pasquale and Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the Russe State Opera in his native Bulgaria. He previously served as assistant conductor for the Baltimore Opera Company in productions of Elektra, Eugene Onegin, and La Cenerentola. During the summer of 2002, Rachev was simultaneously chosen to be an Academy Conductor for the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival and one of four participants in the League of American Orchestra's National Conducting Institute in Washington, D.C., which culminated in his well-received debut with the National Symphony Orchestra. Danail Rachev was born in Shumen, Bulgaria and trained at the State Musical Academy in Sofia, where he received degrees in Orchestral and Choral conducting. Rachev moved to the United States to study at the Peabody Conservatory on a full scholarship, graduating in 2001 with the Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting. His conducting teachers have included Gustav Meier, Michael Tilson Thomas, Vassil Kazandjiev, David Zinman, and Leonard Slatkin.
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