Igor Durlovski

Durlovski was born in Bitola, SR Macedonia, part of SFR Yugoslavia, now North Macedonia, in 1977. He graduated from the Faculty of Music at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. He made his debut in 1999 and from 2000 to 2002 sang with the Macedonian Opera in many productions including Lucia di Lammermoor, Il trovatore, Don Giovanni, Turandot, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La forza del destino, Rigoletto, and Aida. He made his international debut at the Wiener Kammeroper in 2001 as Nonacourt in Nino Rota's Il cappello di paglia di Firenze. That year he also began further voice study with mezzo-soprano and Kammersängerin Olivera Miljaković. He has sung in the Macedonian operas Lydia of Macedonia and Tzar Samuil, and in 2003 the Association of Macedonian Composers awarded him the "Georgi Bozhikov Prize" for the best performance in a work by a Macedonian composer. He was also a laureate at the International "Jeunesses Musicales" competition in Belgrade. Since the 2009/2010 season he has appeared regularly at the Staatstheater Kassel.

On the concert platform Durlovski has appeared as a soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Verdi and Mozart Requiems, Dimitrie Buzharovski's Radomir Psalter, Vlastimir Nikolovski's oratorio To Clement, and Risto Avramovski's Winter symphony. He has sung with the Vienna Residence Orchestra, East-West Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, Sofia Philharmonic, and ALEA contemporary music ensemble.

He is married to opera singer Ana Durlovski, with whom he opens the Durlovski Opera Academy in 2019..[1]

In 2020, it is announced that Igor Durlovski is Independent candidate list for VMRO-DPMNE in the fifth constituency, including Bitola, Ohrid, Prilep and Kicevo for the early parliamentary elections scheduled for 15 July 2020.[2]

Durlovski was among the organizers of protests following the Macedonian Parliamentary election in December 2016. On 27 April 2017, the protesters stormed the Parliament as the new majority was electing the Parliament Speaker.[3][4] In November, Durlovski was arrested, along with at least 30 people, under the charges of “terrorist endangerment of the constitutional order and security.[3] The following day several hundred people, led by former prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and other high-ranking VMRO DPMNE party members, protested in front of the Skopje Criminal Court demanding the immediate release of all who were detained.[5] Since the arrest, there have been several formal and informal symbolic protests, in Macedonia and abroad, organized primarily by Durlovski's colleagues and acquaintances, demanding his release from custody.[6] On 15th March 2019 the Court jailed 16 people involved in the 2017 mob attack, and acquitted Igor Durlovski of all charges. [7]

• Macedonian Opera and Ballet. Igor Durlovski - first soloist
• Staatstheater Kassel. Igor Durlovski Bass

• Performance schedule on Operabase