Darin Lambrev
This young Bulgarian cellist has earned his place in the final thanks to his musicality and remarkable talent.
Darin Lambrev was born into an artistic family in Sofia in 2010. He began playing the piano and the violoncello at the age of five. He has been studying at the Lubomir Pipkov National Music School in Sofia since 2015, where the violoncello has since become his main instrument; he still plays the piano as his second instrument. He started to perform as a soloist with various orchestras at the age of eleven. He has been studying under Professor Romain Garioud at the Darmstadt Music Academy since October 2023. He is a laureate from many competitions, including the first prize from the International Music Competition in Grunewald and the first prize at the France Music competition in 2024. He also received the Viktor Kalabis and Zuzana Růžičková Foundation Prize in the same year at Concertino Praga. In 2023, he received the first prize at the Princess Margaret of Hesse Competition. Darin Lambrev has participated in masterclasses in Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland and cooperated with renowned professors such as Troels Svane, Andrei Ionita, Peter Somodari, Lazslo Fenyo, Denis Severin, Razvan Suma and Romain Garioud.