Svetozar Ivanov is Associate Professor of Piano at University of South Florida and serves as Artist Faculty at Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont. He is also Artistic Director of the Steinway Piano Series in Florida and the newly established International Piano Trio Seminar in Sofia, Bulgaria. 

Svetozar Ivanov has made numerous appearances as recitalist and orchestra soloist in Europe and North America. Recent venues include Carnegie, Merkin, and Steinway Halls in New York, Salle Gaveau and Association Philomuses in Paris, The Bethaniënklooster in Amsterdam, Seiler Piano Festival in Crete, Mansfield 22 in London, Royal Academy of Music in Denmark, Incontro sulla Tastiera in Italy, Royal Irish Academy of Music, “Salon des Arts” and “Sofia Music Weeks” in Bulgaria, North Netherlands Conservatory, Zurich Conservatory in Switzerland, Vicenza Conservatory in Italy, Festival “Peter the Great” in the Netherlands, Robert Helps International Festival in Florida and New York City, Chautauqua Music Festival in New York, Killington Music Festival in Vermont, Fox River Chamber Music Festival in Wisconsin, Sequoia Concerts in San Francisco, The Steinway Series and International Piano Series in Florida as well as numerous concert series at universities throughout the US. He has served as a Jury member at the Isidor Bajic Competition in Serbia, Seiler International Piano Competition in Crete, the Konzerteum International Piano Competition in Greece, the International Youth Music Festival and Competition in Bulgaria, and the Chautauqua Music Festival Piano Competition in NY. 

In 2007 Svetozar Ivanov released two solo piano CD’s on Gega New - “Vers la flamme” and “Naked Tango”. As a member of the Stuart-Ivanov Duo (violin-piano) he also premiered and recorded unpublished works of the repressed Soviet composer Nikolai Roslavets which were released in March 2009 by Gega New. His current recording projects include: the “Complete Chamber Music for Piano and Strings of Robert Helps” on Albany Records, "1917 - violin/piano sonatas by Debussy, Janacek, and Respighi" (with Carolyn Stuart - violin), and "Black Ten" (solo piano compilation inspired by Julio Cortazar's poem Negro el Diez; works by J.S.Bach, George Crumb, Robert Helps, Augusta Read Thomas, and David Del Tredici). 

Svetozar Ivanov is especially recognized for his creative work in designing unusual concert formats combining music with other art forms (documentary footage, art films, animation, poetry, short stories, live dance improvisation, paintings, lighting design). An art form in themselves, these evocative programs suggest one complete aesthetic idea that develops throughout the program.  

In 2005 Svetozar Ivanov commissioned and premiered “Trio Concerto for piano, violin, cello and orchestra” by Victor Chouchkov with the Sofia Philharmonic in Bulgaria. He recorded the concerto with the National Radio Orchestra in 2008. That was the first of series of commissions for concerti with chamber ensemble soloists and orchestra. The two current concerto commissions are each for violin, piano and orchestra. 

Svetozar Ivanov is a graduate of the Bulgarian National Conservatory and holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from University of Michigan. His major teachers have included Snejana Barova and Arthur Greene.