Stefan Valdobrev

Stefan Valdobrev is a Bulgarian actor, composer, author and performer of songs, film director. Stefan Valdobrev was born on May 20, 1970 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. He graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Art, Sofia, Bulgaria. In the early 90th Valdobrev have mainly with their songs become massive hits and make it extremely popular in the Bulgarian music scene, bringing his series of honors between them and two consecutive awards for the -good contractor in MM Television. However, for him the priority is his acting career and he took part in a large number of genres various performances raised by some of the most prominent Bulgarian filmmakers on the stages of the National Theater, Bulgarian Army's Theater, State Youth Theater, Theater "La Strada", Satirical Theater, Plovdiv Drama Theatre. At the same time Valdobrev showed continued interest in theater and film music, materialized in the writing of the scores for over 70 performances and 20 feature films and documentaries that won him recognition and professional prestige. In 2000, he got his first "Golden Rose" for the film debut for the soundtrack to the movie "Boarding for dogs." In 2008, he composed the music for the film "The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner". This movie has enviable number of international awards and reached the shortlist for "Best Foreign Language Film" of the American Academy Film "Oscar." At the beginning of the century, Stefan Valdobrev gradually moving away from the theater and music scene, and although still play in major productions such as "Much Ado About Nothing," "The Brothers Karamazov," "Master and Margarita", "Comedy servants" "Eurydice," "Suburb", "Hamlet machine", he decided to concentrate the efforts were mainly in the cinema. In 2004, he has made a strong debut in the film "Burning", directed by Stanimir Trifonov for which he received his second "Golden Rose", this time for Best Actor. In 2006, Valdobrev went to Prague, where he majored in film directing at the Czech Film Academy FAMU. After graduation, he worked on several short project videos and television spectacles. In 2010, he has made his directorial debut with the documentary "Manchester United from Svishtov," which enjoyed an impressive festival and television time; falls within the official selection or competition of some of the world's most prestigious cinema forums: in Amsterdam, Hot Docs Toronto, Sarajevo Film Festival, Zagreb Dox Festival; in Warsaw; in Market of the Cannes Film Festival. At the end of the decade Stefan Valdobrev resumes rehearsals engaging in a trilogy of remarkable young playwright Jana Borisova and director Galin Stoev: "Little piece of nursery", "Pleasantly Scary" and "People of Oz." Three performances of Theatre 199 turn in events for the theatrical life of Bulgaria. In 2012 , it happens one another comeback - after a ten-year absence from the music scene, Stefan Valdobrev decided to reunite the group, which operates in the 90th to resume his concert career and begin work on a new studio album.