Anatoly Vapirov was first played on NTS on 21 January 2020. Songs played include Линии Судьбы (Памяти Альбана Берга).

Vapirov began playing jazz in Leningrad (Now Saint Petersburg) Conservatory in the late 60s, further on, in the 70s and 80s, he achieved a secure position as one of the leading musicians and composers of modern jazz. The brilliant schooling, many years experience and splendid skill, have provided him with practically unlimited opportunities as a musician. He has a wide range of interests - he likes to and plays mainstream in the Gold Years of Jazz ensemble, in Varna he is Head of a Big Band playing traditional jazz, he has composed chamber pieces and ballet music.

Although during the last years Anatoly Vapirov lives in Bulgaria, this former Leningrader, saxophonist and composer, has the full right, not nominally but in fact, to stay as a person to the Soviet jazz scene. He doesn’t break the relations with his fatherland and very often plays at various festivals in what was the USSR recently.

Leningraders - jazz enthusiasts, will never forget Vapirov’s large compositions: The Mirror of Memory (dedicated to Charlie Mingus), The Lines of Fortune (in memory of Alban Berge), De Profundis, Macbeth, Slavonian Mystery. Many of them have been released on LPs and CDs and are soundtracks to TV films.