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Todor Kobakov is a Canadian-Bulgarian composer, producer, arranger and pianist based in Toronto, Ontario. He is best known for his solo piano album... Pop Music, his commercial and film scores and for his collaborations within Toronto's indie music scene. Kobakov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria where he was raised by his mother and grandmother. He comes from a family of classical musicians all of whom are bass players. Kobakov's grandmother played in the Bulgarian opera and his mother worked at Bulgarian National Television as a producer of music programming. Kobakov's musical training began at the piano as a toddler. At age seven, he was accepted in to the Lubomir Pipkov Music School in Sofia where he studied for ten years. Kobakov moved to Canada at age sixteen and graduated from the University of Toronto Music Faculty Program with a Performance Piano Degree at age twenty. While in university Kobakov interned at Krystal Music & Sound Design, a commercial music house based in Toronto. The owner, David Krystal, schooled Kobakov on composing music for picture, including the use of production equipment for sound design and mixing.
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