Igor Bakrevski was born in Bitola, Macedonia where he finished his primary music school and high school of music in the studio of prof. Pande Tatarchevski. During his studies he has won a lot of first prices in various national competitions in Macedonia and also in some international in Serbia. Also as a high school student he took part in YMISO orchestra for young musicians from Europe and played few concerts in Slovenia and Italy with this orchestra.
After finishing the high school, Bakrevski became a part of the faculty of music in Skopje Macedonia in the studio of prof. Ivan Kocharov where he graduated in 2009 with the highest grade 10 (CUM LAUDE). For a short period in the year 2007 Igor became also a student in the Boston Conservatory in Boston USA, in the studio od prof. Jonathan Cohler as a full scholarship student, but he left the Conservatory shortly after and started working the same year in the National opera and ballet in Skopje, Macedonia. At the same time Igor started playing part time in the National philharmonic as a E flat clarinetist. Bakrevski is first clarinetist in Fames Project orchestra for recording music which is based in Skopje and he still records there until today. Igor has also been a member of Skopje City Wind orchestra and had played many concerts throughout the years with them as well. In 2016 he finished his master studies in the faculty of music in Skopje in the studio of prof. Sava Dimitrov from Sofia, Bulgaria. Igor has performed few times with the philharmonic orchestra of Monte Negro as a E flat clarinetist and has recorded music with the Bulgarian radio orchestra in Sofia as a first clarinetist. He had performed a lot of concerts with Bitola chamber orchestra in many towns all over the country on many different festivals. As a soloist Igor has performed few concerts with the faculty of music symphony orchestra, faculty of music big band, Macedonian National Philharmonic, Macedonian National opera and ballet orchestra and the Fames Project orchestra. Igor is currently a member of many different chamber groups with whom he had played numerus concerts, some of which are: Sonoris, Gjorevski-Bakrevski duo, Kvinteto, Kvarteto and many others. In 2022 Bakrevski transferred from the National opera and ballet and started working full time in the National philharmonic. Next year he became clarinet professor in the faculty of music in Skopje which started his teaching chapter.
Igor playes Royal Global Clarinets and is a representative of the brand for Macedonia.
In 2024, Igor Bakrevski became an artist of the Sax Clinic’s SCV ligatures. He uses Sonus Divinus ligature.