Vladi Petrov has been a timpanist and percussionist with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz since 2009. He was born in Bulgaria in 1986 and began taking percussion lessons from Simeon Serafimov at the age of nine. He then studied Drumset and jazz vibraphone with Hristo Yocov at the National Music Academy "Pantcho Vladigerov" in Sofia (Bulgaria). In 2006 he began his studies at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz with Prof. Leonhard Schmidinger (percussion) and Prof. Bogdan Bacanu (marimba), which he completed with distinction. He is a multiple prize winner of various international percussion competitions: In 2001 he was the first prize winner at the international percussion competition "Pendim". In 2005 Vladi Petrov also received the prize for the best marimba performance at the international percussion competition "Pendim".In 2007, with his duo partner Emiko Uchiyama (Wave Duo), he won first prize, the Best Set Piece Performance Prize, the Audience Prize and the Keiko Abe Prize at the Universal Marimba Competition in Belgium. Numerous tours have taken Vladi Petrov to Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Romania, Russia, Spain, the Netherlands and the USA as a marimba and percussion soloist, in chamber music and as an orchestral musician. As a member of the "Wave Marimba Quartet" he has recorded numerous CDs for "Classic Concert", "Genuin Classic's", "Sony Classical" etc. Vladi Petrov is also an endorser of the Dutch instrument maker Adams.