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PROGRAM  2008

 


21 June, Saturday - Official opening 
20.00 Festival and Congress Center

Varna Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor Stanislav Ushev
Soloist Lyudmil Angelov – piano

Program:
Fryderyk Chopin – Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 1 E minor, Op. 11
Alexander Skryabin – Symphony No. 4 Poema ekstasa / Poem of Ecstasy


22 June, Sunday  
19.30 Festival and Congress Center

Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Rosen Milanov
Soloist Alon Goldstein – piano, USA

Program:
Antonin Dvorak – Symphonic poem The Water sprite
Bela Bartok – Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 3
Sergey Rakhmaninov - Symphony No. 1

23 June, Monday  
19.30 Art Gallery

Bilyana Vuchkova - violin
Aga Dziubak – cello, Poland
Rosen Idealov – clarinet
Mario Angelov – piano
Galina Borisova – choreography


Program:
Claude Debussy – Sonata for violin and piano
Olivier Messiaen – Quatuor pour la fin du temps (composer’s 100th anniversary)

With the kind assistance of the Polish Institute in Bulgaria

24 June, Tuesday  
19.30 Festival and Congress Center

Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Mark Kadin, Russia

Program:
Dmitry Shostakovich – Music for the film The Gadfly
Aram Khachaturian – Music for the drama Masquerade
Alfred Shnitke – Revizskaya skazka Suite


27 June, Friday  
19.30 Art Gallery

Young Talents Cycle

PROMS – Jazz & Classic in European Dialogues International Project

Jazz & Classic

With the support of the Culture 2007 - 2013 of the European Union
 
  


28 June, Saturday  
19.30 Art Gallery

Young Talents Cycle

PROMS – Jazz & Classic in European Dialogues International Project

Classic & Jazz

With the support of the Culture 2007 - 2013 of the European Union
 
  


29 June, Sunday  
19.30 Art Gallery

Divino Sospiro Baroque Orchestra – Portugal

Conductor Massimo Mazzeo

Soloists
Joana Seara – soprano
Fernando Miguel Jaloto – cembalo
Works by Pedro Antonio Avondano, Francisco Antonio de Almeida, Arcangelo Corelli, Domenico Scarlatti


With the kind assistance of Instituto CAMOES Portugal and the Embassy of Portugal in Bulgaria

30 June, Monday  
19.30 Art Gallery

100th anniversary of Marin Goleminov
Dimov String Quartet

Program:
Marin Goleminov – Quartet No. 4
Marin Goleminov – Quartet No. 8
Maurice Ravel – Quartet

1 July, Tuesday  
19.30 Drama Theater

Varna Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor Arkady Leytush
Soloists Oleh Krysa – violin, USA
Kalin Ivanov – cello, USA


Program:
Hampson Sisler – Thermals, Rising; orchestration Arkady Leytush ; world premiere
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy – Concerto for violin and orchestra E minor
Camille Saint-Saens – La Muse et le Poθte for violin, cello and orchestra, Op. 132
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Orchestral suite No. 3

With the kind assistance of Bulgarian Virtuosi Artists www. BulgarianVirtuosi.com and Le Belle Arti Management

3 July, Thursday  
19.30 Art Gallery

String orchestra at the Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor Plamen Markov
Soloists Ilian and Ianita Markovi – piano duo
Philippe Cuper – clarinet, France
With Tsvetnitsa Folk Songs Choir, conductor Atanas Iliev


Program:
Nikolas Bacri – In memory of Bach, transcription for string orchestra of Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV 904 by J. S. Bach; first performance in Bulgaria
Johann Sebastian Bach – Concerto for two pianos and string orchestra in C minor BWV 1062
Nikolas Bacri – Chamber concertofor clarinet and string orchestra, Op. 61, first performance in Bulgaria
Krasimir Kyurkchiyski – Adagio, Scherzo and Prayer
Georgi Andreev – Suite for a folk songs choir, two pianos and string orchestra after works by Atanas Iliev, world premiere

4 July, Friday  
19.30 Art Gallery

Duo Milcho Leviev – Ganka Nedelcheva
Milcho Leviev. Music for two pianos.
Concert-promotion

Program:
Milcho Leviev – A Little Old Music, Variations on a theme by Arcangelo Corelli, Baroque jazz concerto, Fantasy Scheherazade


5 July, Saturday  
19.30 Festival and Congress Center

Days of Russia in Bulgaria

Music Center of Galina Vishnevskaya – soloists and orchestra


6 July, Sunday  
19.30 Art Gallery

Sinfonietta Orchestra – Varna

Conductor Milko Kolarov
Soloist Anatoli Krastev – violoncello
With Maitrise Gabriel Faure Choir – France, Conductor Therese Farre-Fisio and Girls’ Choir at the Choir School of Varna Municipality, Conductor Zaharina Milkova-Nikitasova


Program:
Dimitar Hristov – Sinfonietta
Joseph Haydn – Concerto for violoncello and orchestra in C
Gabriel Faure – Messe des pκcheurs de Villerville, first performance in Bulgaria


7 July, Monday  
19.30 Art Gallery, Varna Music Gallery

Academic Piano Trio at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama - London

Marina Dimitrova – violin
Lora Marinova – violoncello
Sibila Konstantinova – piano


Program:
Works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Arno Babadjanyan, Johannes Brahms, Astor Piazzolla

8 July, Tuesday  
19.30 Art Gallery

Keller Quartet and Andras Adorjan – flute

Program:
Works by Wolfgang A. Mozart, Franz Schubert

9 July, Wednesday
11.00 Art Gallery

Concert by distinguished participants in flute master classes

10 July, Thursday  
19.30 Art Gallery

Mikhail Voskresensky – piano

Program:
Works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Fryderyk Chopin

11 July, Friday  
19.30 Art Gallery

Varna Music Gallery

Yana Burova – violin
Veselina Tchakarova – piano


Works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Sergey Prokofiev

12 July, Saturday  
19.30 Festival and Congress Center

Moscow Soloists Ensemble

Conductor and soloist Yury Bashmet

Program:

Igor Stravinsky - Apollo Musaget
Paul Hindemit - Four temperaments for piano and strings, Soloist Alexander Melnikov – piano
Dmitri Shostakovich - Viola sonata (version for viola and strings)
Soloist Yury Bashmet – viola

13 July, Sunday  
19.30 Art Gallery

Moscow Soloists - Piano Quintet

Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Andrei Poskrobko -violin
Sergei Lomovsky - violin
Roman Balashov - viola
Alexei Naidenov – violoncello


Program:
Johannes Brahms – Trio for violin, viola and piano, E flat major, Op. 40
Franz Schubert – Wanderer Fantasy for piano
Dmitri Shostakovich – Piano quinet


14 July, Monday  
19.30 Festival and Congress Center

Moscow Soloists Ensemble

Conductor Yury Bashmet

Program:
Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Soloists Sergei Lomovsky, Arina Shevliakova, Andrei Poskrobko, Stepan Yakovich
Giya Kancheli - KAPOTE (Once) for bajan, strings and drums, first performance in Bulgaria
Soloist Friedrich Lips - bajan
Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 49 (La passiona)

Ensemble’s general partner OAK NOVATEK
Ensemble’s partner Bosco di Ciliedgi

17 July, Thursday
19.30 Art Gallery

Concert by distinguished participants in piano master classes

18, 21, 23, 25 July  
19.00 Drama Theater, Varna Opera

Modest Mussorgsky – Boris Godunov – premiere

Conductor Hristo Ignatov
Director Pavel Gerdzhikov
Stage designer Ivan Tokadzhiev
Costumes designer Chavdar Chomakov
Choral conductor Malina Hubcheva

With Yulian Konstantinov, Vyacheslav Pochapsky and Boris Bezhko – soloists of Bolshoi Theatre, Lachezar Pravchev, Tsvetan Tsvetkov, Konstantin Videv and others

21 July, Monday
19.30 Art Gallery

Concert by prizewinners of Canetti Competition

23 July, Wednesday  
19.30 Art Gallery

New Bulgarian University
Highlights of Fritz Kreisler and romances
 

Concert by students and junior students from the violin class of Prof. Mintcho Mintchev
Accompaniment Marina Kapitanova


27 July, Sunday
19.30 Art Gallery

Concert by distinguished participants in violin master classes


30 July, Wednesday
19.00 Drama Theater, Varna Opera

Opera gala concert

Conductor Hristo Ignatov
Featuring Kaludi Kaludov – tenor, Yulian Konstantinov – bass and others


Celebrations:
100th anniversary of Marin Goleminov
100th anniversary of Olivier Messiaen
70th anniversary of Dimo Dimov
70th anniversary of Milcho Leviev



20 – 22 June
Azalia Hotel & SPA

16th Summer Scientific Meeting – Varna 2008

Bulgarian Culture and the European 20th Century

 




SUMMER ACADEMY

4 – 9 July

Flute master classes – Prof. Andras Adorjan


10 – 17 July

Piano master classes – Prof. Mikhail Voskresensky


21 – 27 July

Violin master classes – Prof. Mintcho Mintchev




OTHER EVENTS

2 July

19.00 Concert studio of Radio Varna

Promotion of new CDs and celebration of 90th anniversary of Emil Glavanakov and 80th anniversary of Ivan Marinov


Free admission
 

 

Programme subject to change
 

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