Lyuben Dosev was born in Pleven, North Bulgaria, in 1953. Following in the footsteps of his father Tsvetan Dosev, the kaval player for the Severnyashki Ensemble, Lyuben started to play the kaval as a small child. As early as the 7th grade, he was recruited by youth folk camps to teach kaval to younger children. After Lyuben graduated from the Pleven Music High School, he moved to Plovdiv to attend the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts. During this time, he was one of the founders of the vocational music high school in the town of Shiroka Lûka in the Rhodopi mountains, the first of its kind in Bulgaria. Lyuben received his Bachelors degree from the Academy, and has been teaching there ever since; he later went on to earn his Doctorate degree from the Academy, with a dissertation entitled:

"Typical Methods of the Thracian Kaval Playing Style." He has taught nearly all of the current generation of Bulgaria’s best-known kaval players and has been a mentor for many young musicians, as well as colleagues at the Academy.  

In 2008, Professor Ph.D Lyuben Dosev was elected Vice Rector at the Academy of Music. Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv. Since 1995 he has collaborated with the dance teacher and choreographer Iliana Bozhanova on teaching tours to many countries and on the series of recordings, “To the Bulgarian Folklore with Love” Lyuben is the Program Director of the Summer Folk Music & Dance Seminar held at the Academy in Plovdiv.