Vlaev is a composer, performer, music producer, sound designer and educator based in The Hague(The Netherlands). The interest in a variety of musical languages, forms and abilities of expression provokes him to use different types of media to implement his ideas. This is evident in his work which vary from solo instrumental compositions, through widely distributed chamber music forms to large-scale orchestral compositions with use of electronics, film music as well as electroacoustic music for fixed media and live electronics performances.
His work has been presented at variety of festivals and venues such as: New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, (New York, US), Sound of the Underground (SOTU) Festival, (Amsterdam, NL), Sounds of Silence Festival, (The Hague, NL), SONIX (acousmatic music concert series in Brno, CZ) Sound & Relation, The Universe of Computer Music (Sofia, BG), Azimuth, Grondwater Festival, WFS Festival, ReWire Festival (The Hague, NL), WORM (Rotterdam, NL), STEIM (Amsterdam, NL), klingt gut! Symposium on Sound (Hamburg, DE), March Music Days Festival (Ruse, BG) and others. His compositions have been commissioned and recorded by the Bulgarian National Radio and presented at the International Rostrum of Composers.
Vlaev gained his Composition Masters in Academy for Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv, (BG) and Akademia Muzyczna im. Karola Lipińskiego in Wrocław, (PL). His interest in electroacoustic music led him later to the Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatory, The Hague (NL). There Vlaev accomplished a master project focused on the design of a digital system for processing of acoustic sound in real-time and developed a hybrid acoustic-digital instrument with which he performs regularly.
LIST OF WORKS:
For instruments and electronics:
Mixed studies #02: E profundo, for clarinet and live electronics, 2020
Mixed studies #01: Diffused Gestures, for accordion and live electronics, 2018
Mixed studies #00: Strange Loops, for prepared piano and live electronics, 2017
Electroacoustic music for fixed media:
Hallowed Be Thy Name, 5.1 channels, fixed media, 2016
Cell/o/Phonie, 8 channels, fixed media, 2015
Bells reflections, 2 channels, fixed media, 2013
Water, 4 channels, fixed media, 2008
Music for ensembles:
Concerto for electronically prepared keyboard, 13 strings, percussions and computer, 2008 – 2009
Towards Singularity, for an ensemble of 8 instruments, 2018
Zusammen/Getrennt/Zusammen, for wind quintet, 2015
Bells, for guitar quartet, 2013 (revised 2014)
Yin&Yang, trio for clarinet, marimba and piano, 2007
Prelude&Scherzo, for viola and piano, 2006 – 2007
Variations, for brass quintet, 2006
Three songs to lirycs by Dimcho Debelianov, for female voice and piano, 2005
Hommage a Piazzolla, for violin, accordion, guitar, piano and double bass, 2004
Sonata, for flute & guitar, 2003-2004
Music for guitar ensemble, 2003
For clarinet:
Suite, 2005 – 2006
For guitar:
Fusion, 2014
Small suite in ancient style, 2005 – 2006
Nostalgy, 2004
Asimetrico, 2002
For piano:
Toccata, 2008
Sonatina, 2007