Traycho Sinapov, akordeon

Svatovska rûchenitsa
Petrunino horo
Bavna pesen i Blateshnishko horo
Kukuneshko horo
Zemenska rûchenitsa
Tetevenska kopanitsa

Pernishko horo
Na trapeza i Sitno shopsko
Suhodolska rûchenitsa
Bistrishka kopanitsa
Kyustendilska rûchenitsa

Traycho Sinapov belongs to the so-called "young generation" of Bulgarian musicians, and if in spite of this fact, he already enjoys a very great popularity, this is due to his exceptional inborn talent and industriousness. As he himself likes to say, he began to play the accordion at a very early age and ever since then it has become his constant companion and fellow-traveller. His first music teacher was his maternal uncle, the well-known clarinettist Kadri Ucharov. Later on he continued with his accordion lessons at the Aura Reading-Room Club in Sofia, where he was immediately remarked by several distinguished musical pedagogues, who undertook to train further the talented youth. The results were quick to come! After several years of assiduous labour and self-exigency the young and promising accordionist Traycho Sinapov was appointed a soloist at the Bulgarska Muzika Main Musical Direction, under the auspices of which he undertook many concert tours throughout the land, where he was widely accepted as a temperamental and skilful artist õ a real master of his instrument. In the course of eight years Sinapov gave numerous concerts all over the country together with such distinguished performers as the People's Artist Vulkana Stoyanova, the Honored Artists Yovcho Karaivanov and Stayka Gyokova, the People's Artist Mita Stoycheva, Pavel Sirakov, Yanka Roupkina, Kalinka Vulcheva and many others. These concerts have remained memorable to this day for numerous fans of Bulgarian folk music.

The aspiration towards a more perfect and profound professional work took Traycho Sinapov to the State School of Choreography, where he worked as a rehearsal accordionist with many distinguished Bulgarian choreographers. This was a very beneficial period in Sinapov's performer's erection, as there he seriously and professionally studied the different styles of Bulgarian folk music, its multiformity and originality.

When in 1970 Traycho Sinapov made his first recordings at Radio Sofia, he was already a mature and accomplished artist, who through industriousness, perseverance and love for music perfected his inborn talent. Ever since then he has been a regular guest of the Bulgarian Radio, the TV and the Balkanton studio, and naturally at all concert halls at home and abroad õ Yugoslavia, Greece, the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc. In 1977 Traycho Sinapov participated in the final concert manifestation, organized by the authoritative Italian firm "Goarini," at which concert he brilliantly presented the beautiful and frolicsome Bulgarian folk music. His numerous listeners will always remember the temperamental and masterful performance of the accordionist Traycho Sinapov. -Ekaterina Eftimova

Recorded circa 1977, Accompanying orchestrating, elaborating and conducting by Emil Kolev