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PROGRAM  2010

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


 
 

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