Yavor Karagitliev

About

Yavor Karagitliev is a music producer, composer, instrumentalist, and musician with long-standing experience in the music industry in Bulgaria and abroad. He is the winner of many national and international music competitions and has collaborated with many recognized musicians and actors. An important part of his career includes composing music and sound design for theater and cinema. Yavor graduated from the National Music School "L. Pipkov" in Sofia, Bulgaria, majoring in classical guitar in 2014. In the same year, he composed and staged the music for his first theatrical play, titled "First Love" by Samuel Beckett, directed by Konstantin Elenkov. In 2017, Yavor was the composer and live musician at the Drama Theater - Plovdiv for the play "Dangerous Liaisons" by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos and Heiner Müller, directed by Konstantin Elenkov. In 2018, Yavor became the composer and mentor of the "Ocean of Love" festival in Pazardzhik for the performance "The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde, directed by Konstantin Elenkov. A year later, he was appointed composer and mentor of the same festival in Pazardzhik for the play "Taduf - Taduf" (incidents on the train) by Agatha Christie with director Konstantin Elenkov. In 2020, Yavor won first prize at the "X Competition for Contemporary Choreography on Bulgarian Music "Margarita Arnaudova" in Sofia, during which the ballet "Arabesque" performed "C L E A N" to music written for the occasion by Yavor and choreography by Deyan Georgiev. Also in 2020, Yavor released his first album, titled "Egotrip," with singer and songwriter Mila Robert. At the end of 2021, Yavor created music and sound design at the Drama Theater - Plovdiv for the performance "Silk" directed by Diana Dobрева, which was the first Bulgarian performance to participate in the "10th Theater Olympics" in Budapest, Hungary, in 2023. In 2022, Yavor composed and staged the music for "Medea" by director Diana Dobрева in Vilnius, Lithuania. In 2023, he composed the music and sound at the Drama Theater Plovdiv for the performance "Oedipus and the Prophets" directed by Diana Dobрева. Later that year, he composed the music for "The Swan" by director Petar Batakliev. In 2024, Yavor was the composer and sound designer for the play "Moby Dick" by director Diana Dobрева at the Ivan Vazov National Theater in Sofia, Bulgaria. Later, he graduated from the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts "Prof. Asen Diamandiev" – Plovdiv with a major in classical guitar.