Dragan Prokopiev

Dragan Prokopiev Vasilev , better known as Dragan Prokopiev, is a Bulgarian choir conductor and music pedagogue. He obtained the title "honoured artist" in 1965.

In 1930, Prokopiev returned to Bulgaria and became a music teacher in the American College of Sofia, establishing his own private music school that existed until 1936. In 1940, he taught at the First Male Gymnasium of Sofia.

In 1941, Prokopiev wrote "Methodics of singing", in which he developed the topic of singing as a separate subject in Bulgarian schools. Apart from his pedagogical and methodological activities, he was an active violin performer as a member of two quartets for chamber music: The Czech Quartet (1927) and the Sofia Quartet (1932–1935), where he performed together with Todor Vazharov, Konstantin Starchev and Georgi Ivanov.