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Milcho Leviev

Milcho Leviev is a composer, who has won a lot of awards, arranger, performer (pianist, keyboardist, conductor) and a lecturer in classica and jazz music.

Doctor Honoris Causa, New Bulgarian University, 1998.
Holder of the Order of Stara Planina (1997), the highest state honors; awarded by the President of Republic of Bulgaria.
ORDER „SAINTS CYRIL AND METHODIUS“, Bulgaria 2007.
Holder of La Médaille de l’Académie internationale des arts, Paris, France, and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 1995.
Lecturer at the Jazz Studies Faculty at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles from 1988 to 1998.
Lecturer at the GROVE School of Music, Los Angeles, from 1974 to 1992.
Musical director of the “Come back Inn” jazz club in Venice, CA from 1981 to 1990.
“Dramalogue” USA winner for Best Musical Director in 1987.
Author of the arrangement of “Blue Rondo a la Turk” (Dave Bru