Martin Georgiev

British-Bulgarian composer and conductor Martin Georgiev is the Staff Conductor for The Royal Ballet. He was promoted in 2023, after having been assistant conductor for The Royal Ballet since 2013, involved with the world premieres of Woolf Works, Multiverse, Connectome, Frankenstein, Yugen, Obsidian Tear, The Illustrated Farewell, Strapless, Corybantic Games, The Wind, Raven Girl, The Unknown Soldier, Medusa, The Weathering, Like Water for Chocolate, alongside the classical repertory, and conducted diverse productions including Swan Lake, Mayerling, Woolf Works and the world premiere of Gemma Bond's Boundless.

Born in Varna, he gained a postgraduate diploma in conducting and PhD in composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and Master's degrees in conducting and composition at the National Academy of Music in Sofia. He was laureate of the TACTUS International Composers’ Forum in Brussels, the Grand Prize of the Sofia National Philharmonic Orchestra and has over 20 other awards and scholarships internationally. 

He also conducts for the Birmingham Royal Ballet, for which he conducted the world premieres of Ignite (nominated for Benois de la Danse 2018) and A Brief Nostalgia, as well as Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty and a newly choreographed Romeo and Juliet in collaboration with the Rosie Kay Dance Company. Other ballet companies he has conducted for include The Australian Ballet (Swan Lake), Netherlands Dance Theatre (NDT1) (Marco Goecke's In The Dutch Mountains, world premiere), Northern Ballet (The Nutcracker, Beauty and the Beast), Varna International Ballet (Swan Lake, The Nutcracker) and upcoming: Balleto di Opera di Roma (Le Rouge et le Noir). He gave the world premieres of new ballets by Marco Goecke, Rosie Kay, Gemma Bond, Juanjo Arques, Jack Lister.

His collaborations as composer and conductor include the London Mozart Players, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, National Orchestra of Belgium, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Sofia National Philharmonic Orchestra, Kammerorkest van het Noorden, Varna Opera and Ballet and the Bloomsbury Opera. He had tenure as Composer in Residence to the City of Heidelberg. 

Georgiev has released two critically acclaimed albums: Genesis, featuring his conducted orchestral works, and his Violin Concerto, featuring Vasko Vassilev and the Covent Garden Soloists, which was composed, recorded and released during the lockdowns of 2020 and dedicated to medical doctors, researchers and carers.