VARNA
SUMMER INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2010
Member of European Festivals Association
June 19 – July 25
19
June, Saturday
20:00 Festival and Congress Center
Philharmonic Orchestra of the
Opera-Philharmonic Society – Varna
Mixed Choir of the Opera-Philharmonic
Society – Varna
conductor Malina Hubcheva
Morski Zvutsi Mixed Choir
chief conductor Marin Chonev, conductor
Rositsa Shtereva
Conductor Stanislav Ushev
Soloists:
Mariana Tsvetkova - soprano
Boyka Vasileva - mezzo-soprano
Kaludi Kaludov- tenor
Ivaylo Dzhurov- bass
Pancho Vladigerov- Vardar Rhapsody
Ludwig van Beethoven- Symphony No 9
Dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the
European Capitals of Culture
20
June, Sunday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Piano trio, Austria
Gottlieb Wallisch-piano
Wolfgang David-violin
Wolfgang Panhofer-cello
Works by by Franz Schubert and Dmitri
Shostakovich
21 June, Monday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Debussy String Quartet, France
Christophe Collette- violin
Dorian Lamotte- violin
Vincent Deprecq-viola
Alain Brunier- violoncello
Works by by Darius Milhaud, Leos
Janacek, Maurice Ravel
22
June, Tuesday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Baroque ensemble Lautten Compagney,
Germany
Soprano, baroque flute, baroque violin,
viola da gamba, lute, harpsichord,
theorbo
Chirping of the Nightingale:
Pieces from the book The English Dancing
Master by John Playford
23
June, Wednesday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Varna Music Gallery Series
Graziella Valcheva-Fierro –
mezzo-soprano
Veneziela Naydenova – piano
The Spanish hour
Works by Federico Garcia Lorca, Federico
Mompou, Maurice Ravel, Manuel De Falla,
Dmitri Shostakovich
25
June, Friday
19:30 Opera Varna
Singers from Academia Santa Cecilia
Varna Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Gancho Ganchev
Arias, duets and quartets from Italian
operas
26
June, Saturday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Calefax Reed Quintet, The Netherlands
Oliver Boekhoorn- oboe
Ivar Berix- clarinet
Raaf Hekkema- saxophone
Jelte Althuis- bass clarinet
Alban Wesly- bassoon
Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg
Variations, Claude Debussy – Children’s
Corner, Frederic Rzewski - Reeds
(Bulgarian premiere), Richard Strauss -
Till Eulenspiegel
27
June, Sunday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Orpheus Academy Orchestra
Conductor and soloist Mario Hossen –
violin
The Seasons
Works by Antonio Vivaldi, Piotr Ilich
Tchaikovsky, Astor Piazzolla
29
June, Tuesday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Sonic Art Saxophone Quartet, Germany
Ruth Velten - soprano saxophone
Alexander Doroshkevich - alto saxophone
Martin Posegga - tenor saxophone
Annegret Schmiedl - baritone saxophone
Works by Alexander Glazunov, Adrian
Pavlov, Gyorgy Ligetti, Dmitri
Schostakovich
29
June, Tuesday
21:00 Open-air Theatre
Opera-Philharmonic Society Varna
Carl Orff - Carmina Burana
Guest conductor Rengim Gökmen from
Ankara Opera
Director Kuzman Popov
Choreographer Zhelka Tabakova
1
July, Thursday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Baroque ensemble Le tendre amour, Spain
Estefanía Perdomo- soprano, Spain
Adriana Alcaide – baroque violin, Spain
Kathryn Elkin - baroque oboe, USA
Sebastien Perrin – traverso, France
Maria Sanchez – baroque cello, Spain
Esteban Mazer – harpsichord, Argentina
Adrián Schvarzstein – narrator, Spain
The Ancient Scriptures
Works by Benedetto Marcello, Michel de
Monteclair, Carlo Grossi, Abraham
Caceres, Christiano Lidarti, Shlomo
Halevi Alkabetz
3
July, Saturday
19:30 Drama Theatre
Seoul Sinfonietta
Chamber Orchestra
Conductor and soloist Young Zun Kim -
violin
Soloists:Tran Huu Quoc - violin
Key Yung Yang- soprano
Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Hugo Wolf, Johann
Strauss son, Jeong Jun An, , Piotr Ilich
Tchaikovsky, Antonin
Dvorak
4
July, Sunday
11.00 City Art Gallery
Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra – Varna
Conductor Milko Kolarov,
Soloist Atanas Krastev- violoncello
Krasimir Kyurkchiyski- Adagio
Konstantin Iliev - Chamber symphony
(String quartet No 1, orchestrated by M.
Kolarov ), first performance
Joseph Haydn - Concerto for violoncello
and orchestra D Major
5
July, Monday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Duo Bilitis, The Netherlands
Ekaterina Levental – harp and
mezzo-soprano
Eva Tebbe – harp
Works by Gioachino Rossini, Maurice
Ravel, Jeff Hamburg, Xavier Montsalvatge
6
July, Tuesday
19:30 Festival and Congress Center
Moscow Soloists Chamber Ensemble
Conductor Yuri Bashmet –
viola
Soloist Xenia Bashmet – piano
Soloist Kristof Barati- violin, Hungary
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Divertimenti
K137, K138, Alfred Schnittke – Concerto
for piano and strings, Felix Mendelsohn-
Violin concerto in D Minor,
7
July, Wednesday
19:30 Festival and Congress Center
Moscow Soloists Chamber Ensemble
Conductor Yuri Bashmet
Soloists Yuri Bashmet – viola and Vitaly
Astakhov – viola
J. S. Bach – Brandeburg concertos Nos 3,
6, Edison Denisov – Chamber music for
viola, cembalo and strings, Franz
Schubert – Sonata “Arpeggione” for viola
and orchestra (arr. R. Balashov), Bela
Bartok- Divertimento for strings
8
July, Thursday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Baroque ensemble La Primavera,
The
Netherlands
Anabela Marcos - soprano
Mitchell Sandler - bass
Igor Roughadze - violin
Regina Albanez - theorbo
Maaike Boekholt - viola da gamba
Dolci Sospiri
Works by Andrea Falconieri – Italian
Baroque
9
July, Friday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Varna-Linz cultural exchange project
Anton Bruckner String Quartet, Austria
Heinz Haunhold- violin
Mario Seriakov- violin
Walter Haas- viola
Stefan Tittger- cello
Works by Helmut Schmidinger, Stiliana
Popova-Kuritko, Ludwig van Beethoven,
Franz Schubert
10
July, Saturday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Michael Roll - piano, Great Britain
Works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph
Haydn, Frederic Chopin, Robert Schumann
11
July, Sunday
19:30 Festival and Congress Center
Philharmonic Orchestra of the
Opera-Philharmonic Society – Varna
Conductor Georgi Dimitrov
Soloist Mintcho Mintchev – violin
Anatoli Vapirov- Concerto for orchestra
N2,
world premiere
Max Bruch – Violin Concerto No1 G major
op.26
12
July, Monday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Svetlin Roussev - violin
Georgi Cherkin - piano
Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Edward
Grieg, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann,
Camille Saint-Saëns
13
July, Tuesday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Plamena Mangova - piano
Works by Franz Schubert, Ferencz Liszt,
Frederic Chopin, Maurice Ravel
14
July, Wednesday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Joakin Clerch - guitar, Cuba/Germany
Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Isaak
Albeniz, Astor Piazzolla
16
and 17 July Friday and Saturday
21:00 Open-air Theatre
Opera-Philharmonic Society Varna
Conductor Borislav Ivanov
Director Kuzman Popov
Giuseppe Verdi – Ernani (premiere)
17
July, Saturday
19:30 City Art Gallery
International Summer Academy
Concert by distinguished participants in
Piano master classes
18
July, Sunday
11:00 City Art Gallery
International Summer Academy
Concert by distinguished participants in
Guitar master classes
18
July, Sunday
19:30 City Art Gallery
International Summer Academy
Concert by distinguished participants in
Violin master classes
19
July, Monday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Rosen Ovcharov – clarinet
Rada Ovcharova – violin
Rositza Ovcharova – violin
Emlyn Stam – viola, The Netherlands
Willеm Stam – cello, The
Netherlands
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Clarinet
quintet K.581, Franz Schubert – String
trio D.471, Johannes Brahms – Clarinet
quintet op.115
20
July, Tuesday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Varna Music Gallery Series
Mariana Popova – piano
Lini Gong – soprano, China
Works by Robert Schumann, Gabriel Faure,
Claude Debussy, Hugo Wolf, Francis
Poulenc, Dominic Argento, Leonard
Bernstein
21
July, Wednesday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Varna Music Gallery Series
Rosen Idealov – clarinet
Maria Mircheva – piano
Works by Nils Gade, Francis Poulenc,
Witold Lutoslawsky, Paul Hindemith,
Robert Schumann
Presentation of Rosen Idealov’s CD,
featuring works by Bulgarian composers
22
July, Thursday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Varna Music Gallery Series
Piano duo Iliyan Markov -
Yanita Markova
With Velislav Stoyanov – bass and Valeri
Tsenkov - percussions
Works by George Gershwin, Astor
Piazzolla, Claude Boling
23
July, Friday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Presentation of Andre Boucourechliev’s
book Regards sur Chopin
With Anzhela
Tosheva -
piano
Mihail Goleminov -
piano
Boris Borisov -
clarinet
Apollo Piano Trio featuring Ivan
Kerekovski -
piano, Filip Filipov
- violin and Georgi Hristov
- violoncello
Works by Frederic Chopin and Andre
Boucourechliev
With the kind assistance of the Instytut
Polski – Sofia
24
July, Friday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Varna Music Gallery Series
Piano duo Antonia Yordanova – Ivan
Kyurkchiev
Works by Alexander Taneev, Sergei
Rachmaninov, Igor Stravinsky
25
July, Sunday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Solistas de Londrina Chamber Orchestra,
Brazil
Artistic director Evgeni Rachev
Works by Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, Carlos
Gomes, Villa Lobos, Cezar Guerra Peixe,
Krasimir Kyurkchiyski, Ernani Aguiar
Other events
21
July, Wednesday
19:30 City Art Gallery
Presentation of Rosen
Idealov’s CD, featuring works by
Bulgarian composers
International Summer Academy – Master
Classes
11
– 17 July Piano
– Prof. Michael Roll
11
– 18 July Guitar
– Prof.
Joaquín Clerch
12
– 18 July Violin
– Prof.
Mintcho Mintchev
EIGHTEENTH SUMMER SCIENTIFIC MEETING –
VARNA
THE MOBILE MAN: CULTURAL PROJECTIONS AND
PERSPECTIVES
4 and 5 July 2010
Free
admission except the opera performances
on 30 June and 16, 17 July
The festival preserves the rights for
changes in the programme |
