The Bulgarian conductor Pavel Baleff was born in 1970. At the age of four he received his first music lessons and at fourteen he attended a musically oriented high school where he began intensive piano, conducting and composition lessons. In 1988 he conducted his first concert.

In 1993 he received the Bulgarian Radio prize for the best young musician and produced radio and television recordings with the leading orchestras in the country. In 1994 he had lessons with Myung – Whun Chung, Heinz Rögner und Ilja Mussin and then continued his Studies at The Music School in Weimar.

Since 1995 Pavel Baleff has been a participant in the Conductors Forum of the German Music Association and has collected valable experience in master classes with Ingo Metzmacher, Wolf – Dieter Hauschild, Dmitrij Kitajenko , Kurt Masur and Fabio Luisi. .

In 1996 Pavel Baleff won the 1st Prize in the International competition Carl Maria von Weber in Munich ( prize winner concert with the Munich radio Orchestra in the Hercules Hall of the palace) and in 1999 he won the conducting competition of the German music schools in Weimar with the Herbert von Karajan – Foundation. In 2003 Pavel Baleff won the renowned Bad Homburg conductor award – one of the highest German conductor honours.

Since December 1998 Pavel Baleff has been the Musical Director of the Dresden Chamber Opera. In September 1999 he was given the position of 1st conductor at the Rostock Opera An 2000 he was made musical director for the length of the season.Since 2002 Pavel Baleff has worked as first conductor and deputy General Music Director at the opera in Halle.

Since January 2007 is Baleff also a Chef-Conductor of the Baden – Baden Philharmonic and Artistic Director of the International “ Carl Flesch” Academy.

Mr.Baleff is a regular guest conductor of several national and international orchestras including the following: The National Opera in Hannover (year 2002, “The Rake’s progress”) as well as at the Komische Oper in Berlin (year 2004-2005, “Il barbiere di Siviglia”, “Fidelio”) and at the Semperoper Dresden (2006 - 2008 “Die Zauberflöte “ ). He also made concerts with the Radio Orchestra of WDR Koeln, with the Munich Radio Orchestra, with the Weimar National Theater, with the Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra, and with more than 50 other orchestras in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Russia and Bulgaria, Italia and France.

Records for EBS , “ Genuin”, ”Haenssler” and “Bella Musica” with the Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra , the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn and Philharmonie Baden - Baden .

During the season 2008/2009 Pavel Baleff conducts as Guest- Conductor in Italy ( Taranto, Firenze), France ( Orchestre de Cannes), Germany (Philharmonie Reutlingen, Philharmonie Rostock, Thuringer Philharmonie Gotha-Suhl), Bulgarien ( National Philharmonic Sofia), Korea ( Masan), Spanien ( Murcia, Palma de Mallorca)

Like Guest Baleff conducts the Performances „ Entführung aus dem Serail“ and „ Hänsel und Gretel“ at the Oper Halle

2009 he has a Concert with Edita Gruberova at the „Menuhin Festival“ in Gstaad (Swiss) with the Baden- Baden Philharmonic

Baleff conducts the Production „The flying Dutchman“ and „Rigoletto“ at the Semperoper Dresden in the season 2009/2010

He is a Musik Director of the Production „Parsifal“ at the Opéra de Nice and „Lucia di Lammermoor“ in Avenches Festival (Swiss) in Year 2010