2006 - 2007 Orpheus concerts

We are starting the new music season with a concert by the chamber orchestra "Orpheus" on the 20th of September. This season, we have prepared for our audience, and for everyone who has an interest in us, a balanced concert program. We will once again have meetings with musical partners with whom we have collaborated with in the past, and hope to become reacquainted. And so the motto for this concert season is "Music makes meeting."

We will end the celebration of the year of Mozart with guests from Austria in the month of December. During November we will meet the chamber orchestra from the city of Bursa, Turkey, before the New Year we will travel there to perform. During March 2007, we will perform on tour in Germany and we will meet soloists from the Association Les Amis from Toronto, Canada. Our meetings with these musicians are made possible by the offered support of the Polish Cultural Institute, Cultural Institute of the Czech Republic, the embassy of Austria.

Like always we will not limit ourselves to particular musical styles. We will continue, for example, the Baroque line in our repertoire, but we will also present premiere performances of the music of Andy Orgee (England) and Michael Peppa (Canada). We won't forget the children, for whom we will organize concerts - we will recreate "Carnival of Animals" by Saint-Saens and the "Children's Symphony" by Leopold Mozart. It is also our intention to offer the audience concert programs with solo performances from the leading musicians of the chamber orchestra "Orpheus." Finally, I can announce the new partners of the chamber orchestra "Orpheus" are the New Bulgarian University Music Department and the National Musical Academy of Sofia.

20th September
Palace of Culture, Pernik, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Raicho Christov
with soloists Darina Maleeva Violin (Bulgaria/France), and Fumie Fukui Piano (Japan)

3rd October

Palace of Culture, Pernik, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Raicho Christov
with solist Woicheh Kopchak Piano (Poland)
Programme: Mozart, Chopin, and Prokofiev.

18th October

Palace of Culture, Pernik, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Raicho Christov
with Hristo Hristov Flute (Bulgaria / Berlin)
Programme: CPE Bach, Mozart and Gershwin

24th October

Sofia City Art Gallery
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Raicho Christov
with Hristo Hristov Flute (Bulgaria / Berlin)
Programme: CPE Bach, Mozart and Gershwin

Sunday, 12th November

Palace of Culture, Pernik, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Raicho Christov
with David Diakov Classical Guitar (Bulgaria)
Programme: Music by Corelli, Mozart, Rubinstein, and Rimsky Korsakov

Thursday, 7th December

Palace of Culture, Pernik, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Raicho Christov
with Chen Chin-Lin and Markus Prause Piano (Vienna)
Programme: Chu Wang-Hua, Zhu Jian-Er, Maurice Ravel, Sergei Rachmaninof, and two premieres by Andy Orgee (from England, present at concert)

21st December

Palace of Culture, Pernik, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Raicho Christov
with Josif Radionov - Violin, Denitsa Zeliaskova - Soprano
Programme: music by Frank, Bach, Tcherkin, Vivaldi, Gruber

26th January at 18:00h

Palace of Culture, Pernik, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Raicho Christov
Sofia Women's Choir "Morfova-Prokopova" with director Atanaska Popova, soloist- Irena Zinandova, soprano
Programme: Schubert, Farkash, Clementi, Kaufman, Spassov

18th February

Palace of Culture, Pernik, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Raicho Christov
with Bobby Jotjov Claritnet (Bulgaria)

Programme:
Music by Jean Francaix

4th March, 11am

Palace of Culture, Pernik, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Raicho Christov
with Vesko Stambolov, piano.

Programme:
Music by Mozart, Goleminov, and Tchaikovsky

German / Austrian Tour - Dates:

- 8.March, Weidenberg/Bayreuth, 19.00h in Gimnasium

- 9 March, Hassfurt/Bamberg, 20.00h in Stadthalle

- 10 March, Brauweiler/Koeln, 20.00h in Kaisersaal

- 11 March, Kevelaer, 17.00h in Konzert und Buehnenhaus

- 12 March, Bad Homburg, 15.00h in Rindsches-Buergerstift

- 13.Mart in Hochstadt /Frankfurt, 20.00h Evangelische Kirche

- 14 March, Salzburg, 19.30h in Konzertsaal des Musikum

Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Raicho Christov
Soloists:
- Roswitha Lohmer - Piano, Bamberg
- Duo Nota Bene Salzburg, Alexander und Eva Vaftar

Programme:
Mozart, Haydn,Tchaikovsky, Metcalf, Rossini

30th March at 19:00h

Culture Palace, Pernik, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Krassimira Tsutsumanova and Raicho Christov.
Featuring the choir "Orpheus's children" - Sofia
Programme: music by Leo Delibe, Albrechtsberger, Britten, Frank, Kaufman.

31st March at 18:00h

Union Composers Hall - Sofia, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Krassimira Tsutsumanova and Raicho Christov.
Featuring the choir "Orpheus's children" - Sofia
Programme: music by Leo Delibe, Albrechtsberger, Britten, Frank, Kaufman.

11th & 12th April (4 children's concerts)

Palace of Culture, Pernik, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Raicho Christov

23rd April at 18:30h
"50th Anniversary Celebration of the Pernik Palace of Culture"

Palace of Culture, Pernik, Bulgaria
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Raicho Christov
with Lynn Kuo Violin, Rachel Mercer Cello, and Micheal Pepa Composor from Toronto, Canada.

Programme: Vivaldi "Spring" from the Four Seasons, Joseph Haydn- Cello Concerto in D maj, Micheal Pepa-Muntations for cello and strings (2007)

24th April at 19:00h

Sofia City Art Gallery
Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus, conducted by Raicho Christov
with Lynn Kuo Violin, Rachel Mercer Cello, and Micheal Pepa Composor from Toronto, Canada.

Programme: Vivaldi "Spring" from the Four Seasons, Joseph Haydn- Cello Concerto in D maj, Micheal Pepa's "Mutations" for cello and strings (2007)

9th May at 18:30h
"Europe Day"

Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra - Orpheus woth the Women's choir Pastoral from Sofia, conductor Irina Schtiglitz. and soloist Martina Dimova-Violin

Programme:
Edward Grieg-Holberg Suite, three works from Peer Gynt and his For the Monestary's Door, Tartini-Violin Concerto in D minor.

17th November
Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts, Studio Theatre 8 P.M
CS Bulgarian Exchange Concert

Canadian Sinfonietta
Featuring Guest Conductor Raitcho Christov

Programme: Edward Grieg Holberg Suite
Michael Pepa Rhapsodie des Danses Populaires Marin Goleminov Three Sketches Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Serenade in C, op.48

9th December 2007, 11:00 AM
Palace of Culture
The Godlike in the music by J.S.Bach

Soloists: Teodora Konach - Soprano, Ivan Kerekovski - Piano, Nadja Leonidova - Harpsichord
Raicho Hristov - Conductor