Vesko Stambolov is one of the leading Bulgarian pianists. He received a solid and versatile music education in his native country. His teachers are Maria Gíneva, Dimo Dímov and Krasimír Taskov. He also worked with Germaine Mounier, Sequeira Costa, and Ventsislav Yankov, and was greatly influenced by Paul Badura-Skoda.

Stambolov has performed at such important venues as Musikverein - Vienna, Palau de la Música Catalana - Barcelona, and Kumho Recital hall - Seoul, to name a few. He has participated as a soloist in multiple concerts with every Bulgarian and many foreign orchestras, performing a repertoire of over forty piano concerti by J. S. Bach (all 14 Bach’s concerti from BWV 1052 through BWV 1065), C. Ph. E. Bach, J. C. Fr. Bach, J. C. Bach, L. Koželuch, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Rachmaninov (№ 3), Prokofiev (№ 3), Shostakovich (№ 1), Henryk Górecki, and other composers.

The German label Meta Records released three CDs of Vesko Stambolov with the seven solo piano concerti by J. S. Bach and the two piano concerti by Chopin in a chamber version. Piano News distinguished his first Bach CD as CD of the month for May and June 2004. He recorded a double CD with music by Rachmaninov for two pianos with Vessela Marinova for the British label Nimbus Records. Stambolov also released a CD with Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D major with the Sofia Soloists Chamber Orchestra and conductor Plamen Djurov. The two recent CDs of Piano duo Emili Brugalla & Vesko Stambolov with Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Prokofiev’s Cinderella and works by Antoni Soler, Carles Suriñach, Robert Gerhard, Xavier Montsalvatge, and Joan Guinjoan (both on the Catalan label Columna Música) received high critical acclaim.

Vesko Stambolov is a fervent promoter of the Bulgarian composers. His CD Bulgarian Piano Miniatures (Columna Música) was awarded with Melómano de Oro by the specialized magazine Melómano. Stambolov is the first performer of the integral of late works of Pancho Vladigerov (Op. 64 through 70). He has recorded the piano concerti by Dimitar Nenov, Lyubomír Pípkov and Marín Golemínov, as well as Golemínov’s Prélude, Aria and Toccata for Piano and Orchestra with the Symphony Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio. He also has in his repertoire a huge number of solo and chamber works by Pancho Vladigerov, Dimitar Nenov, Veselín Stoyanov, Marín Golemínov, Parashkev Hadjíev, Alexander Raychev, Ivan Dímov, Stefan Ikonomov, Boris Karadimchev, Georgi Mínchev, Alexander Tekeliev, Krasimír Taskov, Miroslav Danev, Petar Petrov, and other Bulgarian composers. The set of three CDs that you hold in your hands is the first ever recording of the complete works for piano of Lyubomír Pípkov.

Stambolov won several national and international competitions and he is a laureate of the prestigious Bulgarian National Music Award “Marín Golemínov”, 2020.

Currently Vesko Stambolov lives in Catalonia and teaches at the Conservatori Superior del Liceu, Barcelona.