AmBul Festival of American and Bulgarian Music
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
FESTIVAL CONCERTS
Saturday, October 3 at the American Corner (City Library) at 7 pm
4a Slaveykov sq.
Clarinet Quintet of the US Air Forces in Europe (USA/Germany)
Performs works by Blago Simeonov*, Dobri Hristov*, Jean Absil*, Aaron Copland*, George Gershwin*, Scott Joplin*
Sunday, October 4 at Bulgarian National Radio Studio I at 7pm
4 Dragan Tsankov blvd.
Party Pieces
Collectively-composed pieces by Roumen Balyozov, Mihail Goleminov, Adrian Pervazov, and Yulia Tsenova ** and by John Cage, Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, and Virgil Thomson*
Strings Rock Quartet, Dimchev Folk Ensemble, Gologan Ethno-Rock Poetry Band and others under the direction of Geoffrey Dean collectively improvise gaming pieces ala “Cobra” by John Zorn*
Monday, October 5 at Union of Bulgarian Composers at 7pm
2 Ivan Vazov st.
Evening of Women’s Voices
American Flute Projections: The Laurels Project
Nina Assimakopoulos (USA)
Performs solo works by Jennifer Higdon*, Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy*, Anne LaBerge*, Libby Larsen*, Maggie Payne*, Shulamit Ran*, Terry Winter-Owens*
AmBul+ II: Balkan Voices from Afar
Ardenza Trio and soprano Susan Brownfield (USA)
Perform works by Amy Beach*, Alexandra Karastoyanova-Hermentin*, Stefania de Kenessey*, Athanasia Tzanou**
Tuesday, October 6 at Union of Bulgarian Composers at 7pm Evening of Anniversaries
Frosh Quartet Performs works by Vassil Kazandjiev (75th anniversary) and George Crumb* (80th anniversary)
Poe-etic Projections: Found in Translation
Edgar Allan Poe (200th anniversary) according to Claude Debussy*
Wednesday, October 7 at Sofia Philharmonic Chamber Hall "Bulgaria" at 7pm AmBul+ III: The American Martinu
Sofia Quartet Roxana Bogdanova, Daniela Dikova,, and Nina Assimakopoulos (USA)
Perform works from the American period of Bohuslav Martinu*
WORKSHOPS
Tuesday, October 6 at National Music Academy, Sofia
Friday, October 9 at Academy of Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Plovdiv
Flute Masterclass with Nina Assimakopoulos (USA) Thursday, October 8 at AUBG, Blagoevgrad
“Neoclassicism Lives On” with Stefania de Kenessey (USA)
*Bulgarian (or European) Premiere
**World Premiere
(Galina Koycheva, Geoffrey Dean, Daniela Dikova)
2 Ivan Vazov st.
(Negina Stoyanova, Ivailo Danailov, Maria Valchanova, Victor Traikov)
1 Aksakov st.
(Angel Stankov, Nikolai Gagov, Valentin Gerov, Geoffrey Dean)