Dejan Proshev was born in Skopje in 1979. He studied opera singing in the Academy of Music “Professor Pancho Vladigorev”, where he received Bachelor’s Degree (2001) and Masters Degree (2003) from the Opera Singing Department in the class of Professor Niko Isakov. In 2012, he obtained another Master’s Degree with his work on musical and stage directing with Professor Pavel Gerdzikov.  

In 2002, he had a debut as a singer in children’s fantastic opera The Firefly, by V. Chuchkov, in the National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Sofia. Later on, he interpreted baritone roles in productions of the Macedonian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Turandot, The Secret Marriage and The Visit of the Old Lady, also in The Story about Light (first Bulgarian rock opera) in the National Music Theatre in Sofia.

In 2005, he was engaged as an assistant director in the Macedonian Opera and Ballet Theatre, where he worked in all opera productions in the Theatre’s repertory. Since 2007, he started working as a project manager, as well. In period 2008 – 2010, he was an artistic director of Opera and since 2011, from 2011-2015 he has been a general manager of the Macedonian Opera & Ballet.

Proshev also worked as an assistant director in the Opera House in Bitola on the production of Donizetti’s opera Don Pasquale (2005); he transferred the stage direction of The Magic Flute by Austrian director Angela Zabrasа to the stage of the National Opera House in Tirana (2006); in 2007, he directed two operas by Verdi in the Macedonian Opera and Ballet - “ Trovatore” and “Aida” – it closed the 35^th May Evening Opera Festival. He has directed: “La Traviata“ (2014) in Florence, Italy; “Tosca” at National Theatre in Belgrade (2014), Andrea Chenier (2015) in Osaka, Japan; Adriana Lecouvreur (2105) Varna, Bulgaria; Turandot (2015) Diano Marina, Italy; Opera concert – Teatro Antico in Taormina, Sicily, La Forza del destino (2016) Varna,Bulgaria, La Boheme - Macedonian Opera and Ballet and Amman Opera Festival (2018),Aida (2019) Macedonian Opera and Ballet, Skopje,R. Macedonia, Simon Boccanegra (2019) State Opera Varna,Bulgaria, Raymonda (2021) State Opera Varna,Bulgaria, Pagliacci (2021) Macedonian opera and ballet, Ernani and Sherezade (2022)  State Opera Varna,Bulgaria.

Proshev attended master classes with Ana Maria Pipitone (1997, Reggio Calabria, Italy), Mirella Paruto and Antonio Boyer from Italy (1997, Interfest, Bitola) and Raina Kabaivanska (2002, Sofia, Bulgaria). In 2012, he served as a member of the jury of the International Opera Singers’ Competition “Don Salvatore Pappagallo” in Molfetta, Italy, he was also a member of the jury of the International Competition Marcella Pobbe. Since 2016, he has been engaged like assistant professor to the Opera Department of “Goce Delchev” University in Shtip, North Macedonia.