Education
Minchev is a graduate of the Bulgarian State Conservatoire in Professor Marin Goleminov"s composition class. Between 1968 and 1970 he majored under Rodion Shchedrin in Moscow and for several months he studied simultaneously under Aram Khachaturian.
In 1972 he received a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization music fellowship to further his education in the United States of America, Great Britain and France.
At the Conservatoire de Paris he attended the composition class of Olivier Messiaen.
Career
He has worked as editor-in-chief of music production at the Bulgarian National Radio, as Deputy Chairman and Secretary General of the Union of Bulgarian Composers, and as Artistic Director at the Bulgarian National Radio. He has been on the jury of many international competitions: Let the Peoples Sing (London). International Composition Competition (Terni, Italy).
Premio Vittorio Gui (Florence, Italy).
Premio Ancona (Ancona, Italy). International Composition Competition (Berlin, Germany).
Olympia International Composition Competition (Athens, Greece). South. Prokofiev International Composition Competition (Moscow).
Georgi Minchev has been awarded the highest national and a number of international prizes.
Membership
He is member of SUISA (Switzerland) and MUSICAUTOR (Bulgaria).