Real name: Петко Радев

Effective period / Period of releases: 1974

Petko Radev is a Bulgarian folklore & classical clarinet player.

Petko Radev is know as a virtuoso in Bulgarian folk music, improvising on samples of the Bulgarian traditional repertoire. Radev's earlier folk recordings are regarded as classics in the Bulgarian style.

Radev founded the Bulgarian National Folk Orchestra in the 1970s and played in the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala and has an impressive solo repertoire. He also is a professor in the Sofia Academy Of Music.