Hristo Neychev

Hristo Neychev was born in 1996. He began studying guitar at the age of 11. He completed his higher education at the Prof. Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music with Assoc. Prof. Rossen Balkanski, PhD, and graduated in Pop and Jazz Guitar from the class of Prof. Tsvetan Nedyalkov, PhD. He has attended lectures and masterclasses by Al Di Meola, Georgi Vasilev, Liviu Georgescu, Rossen Balkanski, Boyan Doychev and others. He is a laureate of competitions and festivals in Bucharest, Pleven, Kyustendil, Gotse Delchev and elsewhere. He has been invited as a jury member and lecturer at the Pleven Guitar Festival, the Summer Guitar Academy in Pleven, the Music Without Borders competition in Sofia and other events. He has worked as a guitar teacher since 2015 and, since 2019, has been an assistant lecturer in the Department of Pop and Jazz Art at the Prof. Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music.

He maintains an active concert and recording career, taking part in a variety of musical projects, shows and stage productions with numerous Bulgarian and international performers. These include Miro from the duo Karizma, Toni Dimitrova, Yordanka Hristova, Mimi Nikolova, Nevena Tsoneva, Victoria Georgieva (Eurovision 2021), the duo Dimitar and Hristo, Jerome Kyles (Berklee, USA), Srbuk (Eurovision 2019, Armenia), Karen Movsesyan (soloist at the Novosibirsk Opera), Pink Floyd Trubute, Dani Milev, Divna, Toma Zdravkov, Kristina Ivanova, Vesi Boneva, Kris Gran, Boil, Sofia Gospel Choir, Margarita Kalcheva, Nencho Balabanov, Daniel Tsochev and Eva Volitzer; Sinfonietta Vratsa, Sinfonietta Vidin, Bulgarian National Radio, Burgas State Opera, the Razgrad Theatre and Music Centre, AGBU Orchestra, the Stefan Makedonski Music Theatre and others.