Ognian Stefanov Valev was born on October 5th, 1959 in Gotze Delchev. In 1985 he was awarded two first prizes, one for solo performance and one for chamber music performance, in the competi tion, Young Musician, in Chirpan. In 1987 he finished the State Musical Academy.Pancho Vladigerov, in Sofia, specializing in guitar, and later the Southwestern University, Neofit Rilski, majoring in music pedagogy and conducting. He specialized at Mihaelshtain, the Institute for Artistic Practice in Blancenburg (Germany) in the class of Hines Tutshalt.
Presently, Ognian Valev is actively engaged in giving concerts in Bulgaria and abroad. He made records in the Bulgarian Radio and TV. He is the art director of one of the most famous guitar festivals in Bulgaria, which is carried out in his home town. In 1998 he founded a yearly summer festival for guitarists, Pirin Summer.
With his creative work Ognian Valev contributed to the enrichment of classical guitar repertory and pedagogic literature. In the last years he created a book for beginners “Methodical Basics for Studying Guitar” (Sofia, 1999] accompanied by a collection of works - part I (Gotze Delchev, 2000).