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Sarband: Vox Feminae (2008)

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Vladimir Ivanoff
(artistic director, musicologist, producer, percussion, lutes),

born in Bulgaria, received his doctorate in musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and studied lute and historical performance practise at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and the Musikhochschule, Karlsruhe. Following post-doctoral research projects in Venice and Munich, he began lecturing at various European and American universities and conservatories.
He has published several books, contributes regularly to music journals and encyclopaedias, and lectures at international symposia and conferences.

Ivanoff is founder and musical director of the ensembles 'Sarband', 'Vox', 'Metamorphoses', 'L'Orient Imaginaire' and 'Consortium Monacense' with which he performs in concerts, scenic projects, radio, TV and CD productions
all over Europe, Asia and the U.S.

As a CD producer, composer and arranger he works with numerous artists from widely diverse backgrounds, amongst them: Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Megapolis, Concerto Köln, The King’s Singers, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, RIAS Chamber Choir, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

He directs workshops worldwide for the artistic and career development
of young musicians.

Ivanoff received two Grammy-Award-Nominations in 1994
and two Echo-Klassik-Awards in 2003 and 2006.
In 2007, he was awarded by the Regione Apuglia with the "Premio Mousiké"
for the diffusion of Early Music in the Mediterranean.
In 2008 he received the German World Music Award.

Ivanoff endeavours not only to mediate between the theory and practice
of music but also to illuminate and strengthen the connecting threads
between the Orient and the Occident.
He revives and gives new spirit to the area of Early Music
- not dispensing with musicological scrutiny in the process.