43-ти Международен музикален фестивал "Софийски музикални седмици"  - 23 Май - 27 Юни 2012 г.
43rd Sofia Music Weeks International Festival  23 May -  27 June 2012
PROGRAMME
Opening

23 May 2012
Wednesday

19.00
"Bulgaria" Hall

Symphonic inspirations
Youth Philharmonic Orchestra "Pioneer"
Conductors:
Mihail Angelov
Hristo Ignatov
Stefan Linev
Ricardo Averbah
Lubomir Denev - Junior
Soloists:
Mariana Gurkova, piano
Angel Stankov, violin
Program: Bach-Stokovsky, Beethoven,
Vlsdigerov, Verdi, Tchaikovsky


26 May 2012
Saturday

19.00
"Bulgaria" Chamber Hall

Masters of chamber music
Concert Trio
Idealov Rosen, clarinet
Nina Gordon, cello /USA/
R. Kent Cook, piano /USA/
Featuring
Audra Lavlent, horn /USA/
Program: Beethoven, Czerny, Mu
shinski, Brahms


27 May 2012
Sunday

11.30
"Bulgaria" Hall

Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Chief conductor: Martin Panteleev
Soloist: Vesela Chakarova, piano
Chavdar Neykov, tenor
Alexander Tinkov, baritone
Featuring National Philharmonic Choir "Svetoslav Obretenov"
conducted by Lyuba Pesheva Program: Beethoven, Puccini


28 May 2012
Monday

19.00
Salon "Salza i smyah"

Magister dixit
"Harp - a source of inspiration"
Concert of Suzanna Klintcharova and students of New Bulgarian University
Stage designer: Elena Ivanova
Video: Ludmil Christov
Featuring
Tsvetan Tsvetkov and Vasil Mihaylov
Program: premieres by George Arnaudov * Samartini,
Purcell, Haselmans, Thomas, Tournier, Kostadinoska * Kandov *


30 May 2012
Wednesday

19.00
"Bulgaria" Chamber Hall

Vocal Impressions
Recital of
Tsvetelina Maldzhanska, soprano and
Ermita Schweitzer, piano
Program: Faure, Tchaikovsky


31 May 2012
Thursday

19.00
"Bulgaria" Hall

Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Boryan Tsanev /Macedonia/
Soloist: Alexander Raichev
Program: Mozart and Respighi


31 May 2012
Thursday

19.00
Studio 5

Young Musicians Stage
Sextet for clarinets Bobby Yotsov


1 June 2012
Friday

19.00
"Bulgaria" Chamber Hall 

Masters of chamber music
String Quartet "Bridge"
Program: Schubert, Frank Bridge
Frederick Delius, Grieg


9 June 2012
Saturday

19.00
Union of Bulgarian Composers Hall

Anniversaries
90 years of the birth of Alexander Raichev
"Your Presence" - radioopera


4 June 2012
Monday

19.00
Union of Bulgarian Composers Hall

Anniversaries
90 Anniversary of Lazar Nikolov
Concert with
Dragomir Yosifov, Tsvetan Ivanov,
Maria Chernookova, Atanas Karafezliev, Tsvetana Ivanova


5 June 2012
Tuesday

19.00
"Bulgaria" Chamber Hall

Masters of chamber music
Concert by Vladimir Atanasov, violin and
Zornitsa Radionova, piano
Program: Stravinsky, Prokofiev
Isaye, Poulenc, Bizet-Waxman


6 June 2012
Wednesday

19.00
"Bulgaria" Chamber Hall

Masters of chamber music
Piano recital of Yakov Ayvaz
Program: Bach-Busoni, Chopin, Liszt
Borodin, Balakirev, Mussorgsky


7 June 2012
Thursday

19.00
Hall High Academy of Music

Young Musicians Stage
Sofia Boys Choir
conducted by Adriana Blagoeva


9 June 2012
Saturday

19.00
Hall BIAD - Rakovska 108

Anniversaries
50 years "Sofia Soloists" Chamber Ensemble
Conductor:
Plamen Djouroff
Soloists:
Denitsa Laffchieva, clarinet
Alexander Zemtsov, viola
Program: Weber, Paganini,
Shostakovich, Lazar Nikolov


10 June 2012
Sunday

19.00
"Bulgaria" Chamber Hall

Anniversaries
"Debussy and the music of the twentieth century"
Piano music for four hands
Krassimir Taskov and Rostislav Yovchev
Program: Debussy, Szymanowski, Stravinsky,
Babadzhanyan, Taskov, Atanas Atanasov


11 June 2012
Monday

19.00
"Bulgaria" Chamber Hall

Anniversaries
140-th anniversary of Alexander Scriabin
Piano recital by Atanas Kurtev
Under the patronage of
H.E. Mr. Yuri Isakov
Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Bulgaria


13 June 2012
Wednesday

19.00
"Bulgaria" Chamber Hall

Masters of chamber music
Piano duo recital
Ivo Varbanov - Konstantin Lifshitz
Program: Brahms


13 June 2012
Wednesday

19.00
Studio 5

Masters of chamber music
Concert
Valentin Gerov, viola and
Dimo Dimov, piano


14 June 2012
Thursday

19.00
"Bulgaria" Hall

Sofia Philharmonic
Symphony inspirations
Featuuring NPC "Svetoslav Obretenov"
Conductor: Ljubka Biagioni / Germany /
Choir Conductor
Luba Pesheva
Soloist:
Veselin Vasilev, soprano
In the program:
Alexander Tekeliev, Debussy, Prokofiev


16 June 2012
Saturday

18.00
Hall BIAD - Rakovska 108

Young Musicians Stage
New Bulgarian University
Department of Music
L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
- opera by Claudio Monteverdi
Conductor: Dragomir Yosifov
Directed by:
Simeon Simeonov


18 June 2012
Monday

19.00
"Bulgaria" Chamber Hall

Young Musicians Stage
Concerto for piano trio "Assisa"
Erie Masaoka, violin / Japan /
Atanas Krastev, violoncello
Victoria Vassilenko, piano
Program: Liszt, Ravel, Crumb,
Brahms, Piazzolla


19 June 2012
Tuesday

19.00
Studio 5

Masters of chamber music
Concert-Conversation with the composer Tsvetan Dobrev
With the participation of the
piano class of Ass. Prof. Borislava Taneva


20 June 2012
Wednesday

19.00
Museum "Earth and People"

Vocal Impressions
Girls choral ensemble "Evmolpeya"
Conductor:
Rada Slavinska
Program: E. Manolov, D. Hristov
G. Andreev, Kyurkchiyski, Jenkins


22 June 2012
Friday

19.00
"Bulgaria" Hall

Masters of chamber music
Piano recital by Evgeni Bozhanov
Program: Chopin, Schubert, Debussy, Scriabin, Liszt, Gounod


23 June 2012
Saturday

11.30
"Bulgaria" Chamber Hall

Young Musicians Stage
Ruslan Apostolov - Violin
Winner of the First International Competition
for Violin "Vasco Abadjiev"
Zornitsa Radionova, piano
Program: Tartini, Beethoven,
Sarasate, Wieniawski, Vladigerov


24 June 2012
Sunday

19.00
National Palace of Culture 9 Hall

Anniversaries
150th anniversary of the birth of Debussy
"The Island of Joy"
Pavlina Dokovska, piano
Vladimir Valjarevic, piano
Hristo Tanev, cello
Mariana Panova, soprano
Georgi Spasov, flute
Valentin Ganev  reader


25 June 2012
Monday

19.00
Hall BIAD - Rakovska 108

Two one-act opera for children, parents and teachers:
Mozart - "Bastien and Bastienne"
Telemann - "School Director"
Conductor: Georgi Patrikov


26 June 2012
Tuesday

18.00
Union of Bulgarian Composers Hall

Anniversaries
100 Anniversary of Parashkev Hadjiev
His operas in the videoarhives


26 June 2012
Tuesday

20.00
Red House
15 "L.Karavelov" Street 

Anniversaries
100th anniversary of John Cage
Tribute to Cage
Evening of John Cage
Biliana Voutchkova, violin
Svetlana Maras, audio / electronics
Discussion / presentation of videos, musical scores, books, interviews,
original works for solo violin by John Cage (Eight Wiskus,
a selection of "Freeman Etudes"), and interactive improvisations.


27 June 2012
Wednesday

19.00
"Bulgaria" Hall

Young Musicians Stage
Concert of Ludmil Angelov
and participants
in his master class at NBU



Paralel program


22 May - 12 June 2012

Photo Exhibition "Sofia - candidate for European Capital of Culture - 2019"



22-28 May 2012

Suzanna Klintcharova - a harp workshop at NBU


29 May 2012
Tuesday

15.00
Studio 5

Public discussion of the "Dance Art" in the future Cultural Strategy of the Capital


30 May 2012
Wednesday

10.00
Goethe Institute

Discussion of delegated budgets with the Observatory for  Economics of Culture


4 June 2012
Monday

18.00
UBC Hall

Presentation of books by researchers and musicologists


7 June 2012
Thursday

10.00
Goethe Institute

Public discussion of the performing Arts in the future Cultural Strategy of the Capital


7 June 2012
Thursday

14.00
Goethe Institute

Goethe Institute - Seminar on "Behind the curtain - the strengthening of social dialogue in the performing arts", organized jointly with PEARLE and BAROK


7 June 2012
Thursday

16.30
Studio 5

A concert of young talents from art school ESPA


12 June 2012
Tuesday

15.00
Studio 5

"Died down spaces" - continuation discussion of Alexander Kiossev idea of "Inner courtyards of Sofia"


20 June 2012
Wednesday

19.00
NMA Hall

Presentation of CD "Folk Impressions" - Sofia Boys Choir conducted by Adriana Blagoeva


43 nd International Festival "Sofia Music Weeks" 2012
23 May to 27 June 2012 г.

Co-organizers:

Ministry of Culture, Sofia Municipality
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra

Media Partners:

Bulgarian National Radio,
Bulgarian National Television,
News Agency CROSS,
Eurocom,
BTA,
BG NES

With the support of the
Metropolitan Hotel Sofia

Anniversaries:

50 years "Sofia Soloists" Chamber Ensemble
90th Anniversary of Alexander Raichev
90th Anniversary of Lazar Nikolov
100 Anniversary of Vladi Simeonov
100 Anniversary of Parashkev Hadjiev
100th Anniversary of John Cage
110th Anniversary of Dimitar Nenov
140th Anniversary of Alexander Scriabin
150th Anniversary of Claude Debussy
100th Anniversary of the first bulgarian symphony by Nikola Atanasov


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