23 May 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
Opening
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, soloist - Stanko Arnold (trumpet), conductor Uro? Lajovic /Slovenia/. In the programme: Joseph Haydn - Symphony № 60 and Concerto for trumpet and orchestra, Richard Strauss "Also sprach Zaratustra"
24 May 2009
11.00 am
Bulgaria Concert Hall
Matinee
Charity concert - Neva Krasteva - оrgan
24 May 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
"Jubilee in Sounds" - four new piano sonatas by Dimiter Christoff in performance on Ganka Nedelcheva
25 May 2009
6.00 pm
Polish Institute Hall
Recital of Katarzyna Micka /Poland/ -percussion The concert is organized by the Polish Institute Sofia
26 May 2009
7.00 pm
Sofia National Opera
Les Contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Ofenbach; stage production: Plamen Kartalov,conductor: Velizar Genchev,set designer: Lubomir Yordanov,costume designer: Daniela Yordanova
26 May 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
Recital of Nebojsa Zivkovic (Germany)-percussion. With exclusive support of YAMAHA
28 May 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra - soloist Plamena Mangova, conductor Plamen Djouroff. In the programme: Giya Kancheli, Beethoven, Mendelssohn
29 May 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
"Italy's Great Five of the 1980's " - Vocal recital of Tatyana Shivarova - soprano and Mario Angelov -piano. In the programme: Casella, Respighi, Alfano, Pizzetti, Malipiero
30 May 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
"Jazz & Composition" - joint project of "Sofia Music Weeks" and Rotterdam Jazz Festival. Bulgarian National Radio Big Band and Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra , soloists - Nils van Haften - saxophone (The Netherlands), Antony Donchev - piano, Ognyan Veskov- guitar, conductor -Hans Leenders (The Netherlands). In the programme: works of Paul van Brugge, Petar Doundakov, Renar Aust, Antonio Ballestin ,Rodrigo Faina, Маrcо dе Bruin , Esteve Molero. The concert is organized with the kind assistance of Codarts - University for the Arts - Rotterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands Embassy and with the financial support of Sofia Municipality
31 May 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
Piano duo Plamena Mangova - Boris Berezovsky (France).
In the programme: Maurice Ravel - - Ma M?re l'Oye and La Valse, Schostakovich - Concertino, Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances The concert is organized under the patronage of His Excellency Marc Michielsen, the Ambassador of Kingdom of Belgium in Bulgaria with the support of Solvay Sodi JSC
1 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
"Incontri invisibili" - Musica Nova Ensemble, conductor -Dragomir Jossifov.
In the programme: Bojidar Spassov, Rumen Baliozov, Vassil Kazandjiev, Edison Denisov
1 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Shungo Moriyama (Japan) In the programme:Kosaku Yamada - Sakura Sakura,Yoshinao Nakada - Cherry Alley, Bellini (Soloist Ayako Shirai - soprano); Edvard Grieg - Concerto for Piano and orchestra (Soloist: Nanao Todo - piano)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra - soloists: Michiko Otsuka - piano, Miyuki Kawabe - piano;Robert Schumann - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra- soloist: Rie Hoshijima - piano
3 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
Piano recital of Gerda Struhal /Austria/ In the programme : Haydn,Mozart, Thomas Schlee,Beethoven,George Benjamin, Schubert.
The concert is organized with the exclusive support of the Embassy of Republic of Austria
4 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, soloist Alexander Hinchev - piano, conductor -Nayden Todorov. In the programme works by Gershwin
6 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra - soloist Mila Georgieva - violin, conductor Georgi Dimitrov . In the programme works by Dvor?k
7 June 2009
11.00 am
Bulgaria Concert Hall
Matinee
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra with soloist Chihiro Yada - piano and conductor Kazunori Masuda /Japan/. In the programme: Tchaikovsky and Grieg
8 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
Аrdenza Trio with music by Bohuslav Martinu and Pantcho Vladigerov. In partnership with the Czech Cultural Centre in Sofia
9 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
Music by Friedrich Nietzsche , Boris Pasternak and Richard Wagner in piano recital of Alain Kremski /France/
9 June 2009
7.00 pm
Central Military Club Concert Hall
25 years Tutti Soli Chamber Ensemble -Pastoral Idylls and Poetic Dramas from the German and Italian Baroque /Balli e Baletti/, conductor -Virginia Atanasova, director -Carmelo Agnello (Italy/France) In the programme Monteverdi,Gastoldi and Handel The concert is organized in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute in Sofia
10 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
200th anniversary from the birth of Felix Mendelssohn - "Te Deum", psalms, hymns and motets - Svetoslav Obretenov National Philharmonic Choir, conductor: Luba Pesheva
11 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra - soloist Georgi Cherkin, conductor Pavel Balev. In the programme: Richard Strauss and Brahms
11 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
Piano Duo Elena Dikova - Ivo Kalchev. In the programme: Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, Dave Brubeck, Aaron Copland, Astor Piazzolla
12 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
Piano recital of Anastasia Volchok /Russia/. In the programme: Prokofiev, Schubert, Liszt, Rachmaninov
13 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
Musica Iberica - Ant?nio Eust?quio - guitar and Atlantico Ensemble (Portugal). In the programme: Carlos Paredes, Manuel Henriques, Ant?nio Eust?quio The concert is organized with the exclusive support of Cam?es Institute and the Embassy of Republic of Portugal in Bulgaria
13 June 2009
7.00 pm
Sofia National Opera and Ballet
The Chinese Women - one act baroque opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, Blagoevgrad Chamber Opera - conductor Konstantin Ilievski, stage production Petko Bonev
14 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
40 years Еolina Quartet with Valya Balkanska and Galya Pavlova. In the programme: Vivaldi, Albeniz ,Granados, de Faya, Agiografos, Мarin Goleminov,, Schostakovich
15 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
Organ Recital of Simon Harden /Ireland/. In the programme: Bruhns,Buxtehude,Bach, Schumann, Messiaen, Alain, Dennehy The concert is organized under the patronage of His Excellency Geoffrey Keating, the Ambassador of Ireland in Bulgaria
15 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
"Live at Carnegie Hall" - harp recital and presentation of new CD by the same name of Suzanna Klintcharova
16 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
European Music Festival & Sofia Music Weeks Festival Present - Classic FM M-Tel Orchestra, Soloists: Pamela Hoiles - soprano (USA) and Ludmil Angelov - piano, Conductor: Deyan Pavlov. In the programme :Pantcho Vladigerov, Maurice Ravel, Chopin, Paul Dukas
17 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
35 years Violin Duo Angel Stankov -Iosif Radionov with the participation of Zornitza Radionova- piano. In the programme: Giardini, Haydn, Mihail Pekov, Wieniavsky, Kreisler,Petko Stainov, Moszkowski
18 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra - soloist Shiori Terauchi - violin (Japan), conductor Ricardo Averbach /USA/. In the programme:Jean Sibelius, Sergei Rachmaninov,
19 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
In memory of Trendafil Milanov - Yova and Stoika Milanovi- violins and Rostislav Iovchev - piano. In the programme: Brahms, Saint- Saens, Grieg and Cesar Franck
20 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
In memory of Ivelin Dimitrov - 40 years
Chamber Cappella Polifonia, conductor: Ludmila Gerova, accompanist: Ivelina Ivancheva . In the program:Mendelssohn, Kod?ly, Schubert, Тormis, Nikolai Kaufman, Ivelin Dimitrov
20 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
Schott Music Presents
Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble, soloist - Ivo Varbanov - piano, conductor Jacques Cohen (Great Britain). In the program: Steve Martland, Alfred Schnittke, Jacques Cohen, Peter Maxwell Davies
21 June 2009
11.00 am
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
piano recital of Daniela Andonova In the program works from Rodion Schedrin from the last 13 years
21 June 2009
11.00 am
Bulgaria Concert Hall
Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra - soloists Yuki Saito - flute (Japan)and Erika Hanamura - violin (Japan), conductor -Kenichi Shimura (Japan). In the program: Mozart and Tchaikovsky
21 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
Fullerton Guitar Orchestra (USA)
In the program: Roland Dyens,Annette Kruisbrink,Thierry Tisserand,
Hansjoachim Kaps,Carlos Perez. The concert is organized in partnership with the Embassy of USA in Bulgaria
22 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
Symphony Orchestra, Mixed choir and Big Bend of Bulgarian National Radio, soloist - Stefka Onikian, conductor Paolo Paroni(Italy) . In the program: Bernstein, Stravinsky, Duke Ellington The concert is organized with the exclusive support of Bulgarian National Radio
23 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
Vladigerov and Japan - Piano Duo
Mami & Kumi Uchida (Japan)
24 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
An (Un)Divided Class - Performance
Works, performances and exhibitions of Maria Mircheva, Milena Tzolova, Zornitza Getova, Valeria Popova, Smilyana Lozanova, Emilia Gladnishka, Irena Momchilova, Strahil Toshkov, Ivan Krastev, Victor Stoyanov
25 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
The Height of civilization - Pioner Children and Youth Philharmonic Orchestra - conductor Boris Spassov and program with favorite works of Vladi Simeonov.
25 June 2009
7.00 pm
Sofia National Opera
Salome by Richard Strauss, stage production: Rebecca Scheiner (Austria),conductor: Emil Tabakov
26 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
110th anniversary of the birth of Pancho Vladigerov - Piano recital of Mihail Stoyanov with his works
27 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Chamber Hall
Voice and Jazz - Te Deum Adoramus Chamber Ensemble, Conductor: Teodora Dimitrova In the program:John Kander, Bach, Jerry Bock, Eden Ahbez, Dolly Parton, Manning Herwin,Fred Ahlert, Paul Francis Webster, Josef Zawinul, Jorge Ben, Erroll Garner, Paul Jabara/P. Schaffer, Anders Edenroth, Percy Mayfield and etc.
28 June 2009
7.00 pm
Bulgaria Concert Hall
Amarcord Ensemble (Germany) The concert is organized under the patronage of His Excellency Michael Geier, the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bulgaria and with the exclusive support of Goethe-Institut Bulgaria
Parallel events, workshops and other temptations for the music lovers
25 May 2009
Lubomir Pipkov National Music School
Nebojsa Zivkovic - percussion , open class
28 May 2009
Cinema House
Premiere of Last Witnesses. The chosen. - documentary about the fire-dancing customs in Bulgaria; Producer and Director: Ginka Cholakova;Author: Ruja Neikova
Music: Georgi Arnaoudov
28-29 May 2009
Pancho Vladigerov National Music Academy
and Balkan Multimedia Center Present Music & Media
Workshop with Rumen Dimitrov and Siegfried Dietrich
29 May 2009
Pancho Vladigerov National Music Academy
Valery Gergiev Master Class in Rotterdam - a documentary featuring Poem of Ecstasy and Prometheus:Poem of Fire by A. Scriabin
Sound and Vision
Workshop with Paul van Brugge
1 June 2009
6.00 pm
Bulgaria Hall, Studio Musica
Premiere of "Musica nova" and the Bulgarian music culture by Diana Danova-Damyanova
1-2 June 2009
Pancho Vladigerov House-Museum
Vladigerov Teaches Vladigerov
Workshop with Pancho Vladigerov jr.
4-16 June 2009
Bulgaria Hall
Photo Exhibition
Pancho Vladigerov and Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra
7-8 June 2009
Bulgaria Hall, Studio Musica
Alain Kremski - About the music of Boris Pasternak, Friedrich Nietzsche and Geogre Gurdjieff
11 June 2009
5.30 pm
Bulgaria Hall, Studio Musica
Documentary about Sasha Popov
14 June 2009
Lubomir Pipkov National Music School
Antonio Eustaquio - Portuguese guitar, open class
15 June 2009
Stage 17, Ministry of Culture
Between the Credo and the Crisis
Cultural management seminar
19 June 2009
Stage 17, Ministry of Culture
100 years of the birth of Marin Goleminov, premiere of a compact disc
23 June 2009
Bulgaria Hall, Studio Musica
Documentary about Pancho Vladigerov
24 June 2009
Bulgaria Hall
Premiere of A Paraphrased Love - book of poetry by Ivan Krastev
Photo-Exhibition of Viktor Stoyanov
24 June 2009
Bulgaria Hall
Exhibition of Emilia Gladnishka
25 June 2009
6.00 pm
Bulgaria Hall, Studio Musica
A documentary featuring the concert of Pioner Children and Youth Philharmonic Orchestra in UN Headquarters, 1979.
26 June 2009
6.00 pm
Bulgaria Hall, Studio Musica
Premiere of The Legacy, an album of piano works by Alexander Tanev and his pupils Georgi Arnaoudov and Tzvetan Dobrev performed by Borislava Taneva
27 June 2009
2.00 pm
Stage 17, Ministry of Culture
Financing of the Cultural Industries in Bulgaria by Associated Professor Biliana Tomova
