Chris Boyadjiev is an undergraduate student at The Juilliard School studying with Professor Jeffrey Khaner. He performs and has held leadership positions in the Juilliard Orchestra, Juilliard Opera, Juilliard contemporary music ensemble AXIOM, and currently is the principal flute of the Westside Chamber Players in NYC.
At twenty years of age Chris performed his solo debut concert at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall on May 22, 2024 at the annual music presentation of the “Musical Treasures from Bulgaria”.
Chris is the winner of 2024 Galway Flute Competition and appeared as a soloist in a concert at the world renowned KKL with the Festival Strings Lucerne, Switzerland. The week prior Chris performed at the final round of the Marina Piccinini International Masterclasses Concerto Competition in Switzerland in June, 2024. Upon completion of the international masterclasses in Europe, Chris went on to participate at the two-month orchestral program at the Aspen Music Festival working under the guidance of Nadine Asin, Mark Sparks and Demarre McGill and performing with Aspen Festival Orchestra alongside his teachers. Hamburg GlassMuseum and the Achilles Foundation of Art invited Chris to present a chamber music, flute and harp duo concert, where he received the 2024 Young Artist award presented by the Art foundation.
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Internationally, Chris has participated in the Domaine Forget de Charlevoix Music Academy in Quebec City studying with Emmanuel Pahud and Julien Beaudiment, and at the International Music Academy in Nice with Philippe Bernold. In Europe, Chris performed in Leipzig, Prague, and Vienna as the principal flutist of the Young People’s Symphony Orchestra’s 2022 European tour. In 2019, he toured Budapest, Prague, and Vienna with the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Chris is a recipient of the Young Artist Award by ASCAP Foundation, Michael Masser in New York, and by the Achilles Art Foundation in Hamburg, Germany, and J. & B. Werter Scholarship Awards at Juilliard.
He is the winner of three concerto competitions. As a soloist Chris has appeared with the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra and with the Young People’s Symphony Orchestra. He was a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, and simultaneously held the principal flute position with 2021 and 2022 California All-State Honor Wind Symphony.
Other accomplishments include first place award in the 2021 Young Artist Competition of Beyond The Masterclass, first place at the 2020 and 2021 Sacramento Flute Club, first place at the 2020 FlootFire Soloist Competition, first place at the 2021 Mount Saint Mary’s University Music Competition, second place at the Claire Johnson Soloist Competition, and third place at the San Francisco Flute Society Competition. Chris received the highest Presidential Merit Honor for the Inaugural Creative Youth Celebration of the Bay Area Creative Foundation in 2021. He has been a winner of the Junior Bach Festival and the Marin Music Chest Scholarship Competition for five consecutive years.
Chris played at the Galway Flute Festival in Switzerland in 2019 and in 2024 when he was chosen by the jury as winner of The Galway Flute Competition. He was a finalist at the 2024 Marina Piccinini International Competition participating at the Masterclass in Bürglen, and at Marlboro, Vermont in 2022, Juilliard Summer Winds, Juilliard ChamberFest2023, Beyond The Masterclass with Jim Walker, Aria International, Burkart Flute Academy, Advanced Flute Institute at Interlochen with renowned faculty from the Manhattan School of Music, the New School in New York City, and Interlochen Center for the Arts.
An avid chamber musician, Chris has performed in variety of ensembles under the tutelage of William Short, Alan Kay, Carol Wincenc, Nancy Allen, Eric Ewazen, Conor Hanick, and Daniel Wood, among others.
Graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory (Pre-College Program ‘22, flute) Chris studied with Tim Day and Catherine Payne.
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