Nikolo Kotzev was born into a family of professional musicians. He started playing the violin at the age of 5 and the guitar at the age of 10. On the professional stage as a rock guitarist, he climbed at the age of 14. For years he worked in popular Bulgarian rock bands in Bulgaria and abroad. On the professional international stage he made a serious breakthrough with the Swedish rock band “Baltimoore”. They released two albums in Japan and Europe. A few years later he formed his own band called Brazen Abbot. He released five studio albums, which included artists like Glenn Hughes, Ian Haugland, Mick Mikaeli, Svante Henryson, Joe Lynn Turner, John Leven, Jörn Lande, Göran Edman, Thomas Vikström and Tony Harnell among others. In 2001 he wrote and published the rock opera “Nostradamus”, sung by Joe Lynn Turner, Alanah Miles, Glenn Hughes, Sas Jordan, Jörn Lande, Doogie White and Göran Edman. In 2004 he joined Robin Gibb’s group (one of the Gibb brothers, “Bee Gees”) as a guitarist and later as music director of the touring band. In 2006 he started working on a new rock – opera “Draconia”. In 2007-2009 he created the traditional opera “Joel”, played with great success in Finland in 2009. In 2009 he defended the scientific degree “Doctor of Musicology and Musical Arts” at the National Academy of Sciences Pancho Vladigerov.