Milcho Leviev
Composer
Jazz artist, arranger, and performer who co-founded and managed Free Flight, which was awarded the 1982 Combo of the Year.
He was a graduate of the State Academy of Music in 1960, where he majored in Composition and Piano and won second at the International Competition in Vienna.
He was hired to teach Jazz Composition at the University of Southern California.
His father was Jewish, but was spared the gas chambers because he was Bulgarian.
He and Dave Holland toured Japan together between 1983 and 1986.