Stanislav Anguelov (or Angelov*) was born in 1967. He received his first Accordion as a present from his parents at age of 5. It was a very small size instrument – with 17 Piano keys on the right hand and 12 buttons on the left hand. However it did the job for sometime. He was a musical child. Besides playing his Accordion he loved singing.

In fact he started his performing career at age of 5 when he sang a song at a family member wedding. He started formal Accordion lessons at the age of eight in his native town Shumen (Bulgaria) with Vera Marinova. She happened to be his aunt, but he had agreement with her, that when he went for his lesson she was Mrs. Marinova and when they were at family gatherings she was Aunty Vera.

One year later he was offered to join the local children choir. At that time he had to decide – Singing or Accordion? It did not take long – Accordion won. At age of 10 he joined the Junior Accordion Orchestra, which was conducted by his Teacher Vera Marinova and a few years later he joined the senior Accordion Orchestra, which was compiled by advanced students and a few professionals. It consisted from 20-30 Accordions, Percussion, Bass or Bassoon and the repertoire was mainly classical scores, transcribed for Accordion Orchestra.

In 1984 he won a Gold Medal at the National Festival of Performing Arts in Bulgaria. During the 1980s he recorded several times with the Accordion Orchestra for the local Radio Station. In 1985 after passing successfully the entry exam he was accepted at The Academy of Music and Dance in Plovdiv-Bulgaria, where he studied with Prof. Peter Marinov (no family relation between Vera Marinova & Peter Marinov) and received a degree in Accordion in 1991, after which he taught at the "Constantine Preslavsky" University – Shumen.

Until 1992 he has taken part in competitions and concerts in Bulgaria, France and Poland as a soloist or member of different ensembles or Accordion Orchestra. In 1992 he moved to Cape Town–South Africa, where he performs, records and teaches.

Stanislav has done recordings for:

SABC – Classical Music – 1994-96

He has been featured in the following CD's of South African Artistes:

CD "Vladimir" (1997),

CD "Pascal sings Brel" (1999),

CD "Om te Breyten" (1999),

CD "Alpha" (2000),

CD "Equilibrium" - Koos Kombuis(2002),

CD "Tydloos" - Daniel Pascal(2003),

CD "'n Jaar in die Son" - Koos Kombuis & Valiant Swart(2003).

He released his solo album called "Stanislav" in 1997

CD "El Tango en Africa"of his Cape Town Tango Ensemble was released in May 2003.

In 2004 he was commissioned to compose a song and some of the Music of the Sound Track for the short film "The First and Last Love of Leonardo Lopes"

He is in a process of releasing a new CD "OPERA deLight" with the group Belle Voci.

He has recorded many times for Radio & TV adverts.

As a Symphonic orchestra member he performed together with Cape Town Symphonieta in 1999 at Sun City Super Bowl accompanying the British singer Elaine Paige.

In 2000 he joined the orchestra for the production of "Fiddler on the Roof" at the Arts Cape Theatre.

In 2001 he appeared together with his Cape Town Tango Ensemble in the production of the show "Tango del Fuego", written & directed by Martinus Bassoon at Oude Libertas Amphitheatre; Grahams town, Klein Karoo and Potchefstroom Arts Festivals; and in the TV series "Back stage" on E-TV.

In October 2003 he performed together with his Cape Town Tango Ensemble at the Bank Windhoek Arts Festival – Namibia, which was recorded and later broadcasted on Namibian National TV.

On 29 November 2003 Stanislav was invited to perform on "Nelson Mandela 46664 Concert" on Green Point Stadium–Cape Town, where he performed 2 songs "Say it is not true", where he accompanied Brian May & Roger Taylor from Queen and Dave Stewart and later in the program he played "Great song of Indifference", where he accompanied Sir Bob Geldof. There were over 40 000 people on the stadium and the concert was broadcast to an estimated audience of three billion people, which makes it the world's most widely distributed event.

In February 2004 he was invited by the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra to perform the Concerto for Bandoneón (or Accordion) and orchestra by Astor Piazzolla, which he performed at Cape Town City Hall and Endler Hall – Stellenbosch.

During 2004 he performed the leading Bandoneón part in the production of the Tango Operita "Maria de Buenos Aires" by Astor Piazzolla at Oude Libertas Amphitheatre; Grahams town, Klein Karoo and Potchefstroom Arts Festivals. Later same year he performed together with his Cape Town Tango Ensemble and Mark Hoeben & Ina Wichterich from Tango Cape Town at the Bank of Windhoek Arts Festival - Namibia.

In 2005 he performed with great success with his Cape Town Tango Ensemble at the KKNK. Later the same year Stanislav added a new and very important item to his instrument collection and that was his first Bandoneón, which led to his trip in 2005 to Buenos Aires to study with Bandoneón Maestros Ricardo Fiorio and Hugo Satorre.

In 2006 he repeated KKNK this time in two different shows: "Tango de la Buena Esperanza" – all shows were sold out and "All about Tango".

In 2007 he led an extended 6 piece version of his CTTE for a Tango item at "Fleur du Cap" Theatre Awards with Mark Hoeben & Ina Wichterich at Artscape Theatre. Later same year together with his CTTE he provided the Music for a scene in the German film "The time of the Snake"

Stanislav is a leader of the following Ensembles: Cape Town Tango Ensemble (Accordion, Violin, Piano & Bass); Blue Danube Trio (Violin, Accordion & Bass); Mediterranean Ensemble (Violin, Accordion & Mandolin). Besides that he very often accompanies opera singers. He also performs regularly as a Solo Artiste at Concerts or Corporate and Private Functions.

Stanislav released the highly successful CD "OPERA deLight" with the group Belle Voci in March 2008.