Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin (1905-1977)

Introduction
Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin studied for two years at the State Academy of Music majoring in Piano and Music Theory. He graduated from the State Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in Vienna in 1929. He taught Singing at the State Academy of Music (1929-36). In 1938 he returned to Bulgaria. In 1940 he joined again the staff of the State Academy of Music as a lecturer. He became full professor (1944), was elected Rector (1948-54) and Dean of the Opera Studies Faculty (1960-74). He worked as a vocal pedagogue at the Conservatories of Peking, Tientsin and Shanghai (1955-58).

Works
His stage music included:

Operettas: The Rebels’ Song (1955); The Hidden Treasure (in co-authorship with his son Georgi Cherkin, 1961)

Cantatas:  September 1923, lyrics by P. Tiholov (1945); Little Cantata, words in Chinese after Chinese poems by May Lee (1957).

He also composed chamber music; 50 solo songs; songs for mixed, equal voices and traditional music choir, etc.