Darin Lambrev
This young Bulgarian cellist has earned his place in the final thanks to his musicality and remarkable talent.
Darin Lambrev was born in 2010 in Sofia into an artistic family and began playing both piano and cello at the age of five. From 2015, he studied at the Lubomir Pipkov National School of Music in Sofia, where he focused on the cello as his principal instrument while continuing to study piano as a secondary instrument. At the age of eleven, he began performing as a soloist with various orchestras. Since October 2023, he has been studying at the Music Academy in Darmstadt, Germany, in the class of Professor Romain Garioud.
He is a laureate of numerous competitions, including first prizes at the International Music Competition in Grunewald and the France Music Competition in 2024. In the same year, he received the Viktor Kalabis and Zuzana Růžičková Foundation Award at Concertino Praga. In 2023, he was awarded first prize at the Princess Margaret of Hesse Competition.
Darin regularly participates in masterclasses in Germany, Italy, Austria, and Switzerland and works with renowned professors such as Troels Svane, Andrei Ionita, Peter Somodari, László Fenyő, Denis Severin, Razvan Suma, and Romain Garioud.
