Kiril Turpov made his debut as conductor and director of The Soldier’s Story, Stravinsky. He organized a festival, “100 Years of Igor Stravinsky”.

In 1989 he moved to his hometown of Plovdiv. In 1994 he founded the Musical Youth Foundation. He directs the chamber orchestras “Collegium for Chamber Art of the Twentieth Century”, “Collegium Musikum Plovdiv”, Chamber Orchestra “Musical Youth” and others.

Since 1999 he lives and works in New York. There he conducts cultural exchange programs between Bulgaria and the USA. He became a member of the Association of American Choral Conductors and realized his idea for a Bulgarian-American forum of the arts “Festival of Light”. Since 2003 he has been organizing the Festival of Bulgarian Art and Culture “Bulgarian Seasons in New York. He founded the Young Soloists of New York Chamber Orchestra, which grew into the Young Soloists of New York Chamber Society Foundation.

Serves as a teacher and conductor in the U.S. Charter School system. In 2014-2015, he was the conductor of the Shen Yun Troupe Orchestra. Since September 2016 he has returned to Bulgaria, restored and works as a conductor of the “Svilengrad” Choir School.

On his idea from 2019 in Svilengrad is held Children’s Song Festival “Let’s sing together”.

The main goal of the festival is the preservation and dissemination of songs for children by Bulgarian composers.