Rumen Boyadjiev
From Unearthing The Music
Rumen Boyadjiev is a Bulgarian composer, arranger, rock and pop singer, music producer.
Biography
Rumen Boyadjiev graduated from the State Academy of Music in Sofia majoring in Percussion under Professor Dobri Paliev. As a student he joined the FSB Band, founded as soon as the recording studio of the record company Balkanton was completed. FSB became one of the most significant and influential groups in the history of Bulgarian pop and rock music, and Boyadjiev’s entire activity during the 1970s and 1980s was connected to the band. In the mid-1980s he worked in the newly created FSB Studio and composed music for the Bulgarian pop star Lili Ivanova and some young singers (including Roberta). Together with Konstantin Tzekov, he wrote and arranged most of the band’s songs. By the mid-1970s he became interested in electronic music and had the chance to work with one of the first synthesizers available in Bulgaria, bought by Balkanton. In the late 1990s Boyadjiev made a name for himself as an elite studio musician and leading figure in the field of computer music and post-production of recordings.
He wrote stage and applied music, music for advertisements, the radio signals of the Horizont Programme of the Bulgarian National Radio (1997) and the programme "Po sveta I u nas "(Throughout the World and in Our Country) of the Bulgarian National Television (1998). He was the producer of albums by the bands Pyromania (until 1997) and Dark. He was elected producer of the year 1993 at the ceremony organized by the Rhythm Magazine at the National Palace of Culture. He is a member of the international organization Audio Engineering Society (AES).