 | Cigdem SOYARSLAN - Nani mi nani Damyancho "Nani mi nani Damyancho..." Lyubomir PIPKOV 12 Mart 2006 - Yalova Halk Eğitim Merkezi / Yalova Soroptimist Derneği, Kadınlar Günü Konseri Piyano: Nurten TEZMEN KOLÇAK |
 | Vassil Kazandjiev TOCCATA Vassil Kazandjiev was born in 1934 in Rousse, Bulgaria. At the age of 7 he started playing the guitar and two years later he learned to play the piano. At the age of 10 he started composing music. His first teachers of composition and conducting were Konstantin Iliev and Dobrin Petkov. In 1957 Kazandjiev graduated from the Bulgarian State Conservatoire in the composition class of Professor Pancho Vladiguerov and conducting with Professor Vladi Simeonov. Already as a student at the Conservatoire, he won a laureate's prize for his Sinfonietta for a large orchestra at the Sixth International Youth Festival in Moscow (1957). Vassil Kazandjiev started his career in conducting at the National Opera in Sofia, where he worked for seven years. During that period he staged and conducted a number of Bulgarian and foreign operas and ballets: Yana's Nine Brothers and Antigona 43 by Lyubomir Pipkov, Sly Peter by Vesselin Stoyanov, The Boyana Master by Konstantin Iliev, Othello by Verdi, Turandot by Puccini, The Magic Flute by Mozart, Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky, The Wooden Prince by Bartok, and many more. In 1962 he founded the Sofia Soloists Chamber Ensemble with which he had very successful concerts in Bulgaria and abroad for 15 years. Since 1978 he was appointed conductor, and from 1985 until 1993 - Chief Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Bulgarian National Radio. Vassil Kazandjiev combines high professionalism and broad musical culture, as well as a highly developed creative intuition. Therefore, his interpretations of works by different authors and epochs are distinguished by depth, stylistic authenticity and pointed modern sensitivity. His art has been immortalized in many recordings of the Bulgarian Radio, Balkanton, Harmonia Mundi - France, Kibaton - Japan and other companies from different countries. He has had extremely successful guest tours in many European countries, USA, Canada, Africa, Japan, South Korea, etc. In addition to being a remarkable conductor and pedagogue - he is professor of Orchestral Conducting at Pancho Vladiguerov State Academy of Music - Vassil Kazandjiev is one of the most talented Bulgarian composers. He is the author of a large number of symphony and chamber music works: four symphonies, a number of sonatas and instrumental concertos, "Pictures from Bulgaria","LiveIcons", "Apocalypse", "Illumination", three string quartets, piano quintet, etc. He has also composed music for many theatre performances and films. His style is characterized by clear expressivity and artisticism, combined with a virtuoso composition technique. His TOCCATA for piano is written in 1957. This spontaneously written piece is the second one from V. K.'s cycle "Predude and Toccata", intended for his graduatoin examine at the Music Academy. Prelude is a hundred percent Vladigerov's (a gesture of gratitude towards his teacher), but Toccata is an eloquent fact for the real creative direction of the student. Toccata reveals a mixed image, having in mind the style imitations, and rasembles (sounds like) toccatas of 20th sentury - from the music of Bartok, Stravinski, Prokofiev's harmonic style, Pancho Vladigerov's texture and harmonic originality, and even Chopin's etudes texture. Toccata fascinated with its dynamic story, sound richness and harmonic and rithmical ingenuity - witticism, close shape, flowing passages from one kind of technique to another, with the texture coverage over a numbers of layers, with the syncope rhythms. |
 | Bulgarian concert in Sofia church (2), Stockholm 2007-01-20 Bulgarian concert in Sofia church, Stockholm 2007-01-20 Piano Quintet "Piacerre" * Lia Petrova (violin) * Kristina Hinova (violin) * Stefania Yankova (viola) * Lilyana Kehayova (cello) * Simeon Goshev (piano) are students at the National Music School "Lyubomir Pipkov", Sofia. They are all distinguished soloists and award-winners at national and international competitions. Lia is the winner of the Grand Prix at the International Competition Young Virtuosos - Sofia 2005. Kristina is laureate of the International Competition "Mozart" in Uppsala. Stefania is the winner of the First Prize Music of Austria and Germany International Competition M.A.G.I.C. -- 2005. Lilyana is the winner of the First Prize of the International Competition "Young Virtuosos" - Sofia 2005 and of the Music of Austria and Germany International Competition M.A.G.I.C. -- 2001. Simeon is the winner of the First Prize of the International Competition "Young Virtuosos" in 2005 and of the International Piano Competition "Evangelia Tjarri" in 2006. |
 | Bulgarians in Stockholm celebrates EU Bulgarian concert in Sofia church, Stockholm 2007-01-20 Piano Quintet "Piacerre" * Lia Petrova (violin) * Kristina Hinova (violin) * Stefania Yankova (viola) * Lilyana Kehayova (cello) * Simeon Goshev (piano) are students at the National Music School "Lyubomir Pipkov", Sofia. They are all distinguished soloists and award-winners at national and international competitions. Lia is the winner of the Grand Prix at the International Competition Young Virtuosos - Sofia 2005. Kristina is laureate of the International Competition "Mozart" in Uppsala. Stefania is the winner of the First Prize Music of Austria and Germany International Competition M.A.G.I.C. -- 2005. Lilyana is the winner of the First Prize of the International Competition "Young Virtuosos" - Sofia 2005 and of the Music of Austria and Germany International Competition M.A.G.I.C. -- 2001. Simeon is the winner of the First Prize of the International Competition "Young Virtuosos" in 2005 and of the International Piano Competition "Evangelia Tjarri" in 2006. |
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