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SEVENTH ANNUAL CONCERT OF BALKAN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: BALKANICUS

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  Friday, April 22, 2011

Minneapolis, United States

University of Minnesota School of Music presents

Seventh Annual Concert of Balkan Contemporary Music

                  BALKANICUS

Music from Albania, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey

All of the pieces are American premieres

Works by

Alexander Tekeliev, Bulgaria

Dimitar Tapkov, Bulgaria

Mehmet Okonsar, Turkey

Dorian Cene, Albania

Sorin Lerescu, Romania

Vasil Kazandjiev, Bulgaria

Ivan Spassov, Bulgaria

 

Performed by

Philip Zawisza (bass-baritone)

John De Haan (tenor)

Fernando Meza (percussions)

Nickolai Kolarov (cello)

Patrick O’Keefe (clarinet)

Jill Dawe (piano)

Antonia Daskalova (piano)

and percussions students of U of M School of Music

 

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The American premier of The Song of the Dolphin (2008) for Cello and Vibraphone by the Bulgarian composer Vassil Kazandjiev was performed by Nickolai Kolarov- cello and Fernando Meza-vibraphone on the Seventh Balkan contemporary chamber music concert Balkanicus on April 22, 2011 in the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities. This recording has been done 2 weeks later on the same stage.

 

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Nickolai Kolarov performed first this piece in Juilliard School in April 2011. But the official American premier of the Burlesque(1979) for Cello and Piano by Ivan Spassov was on the Seventh Balkan contemporary chamber music concert Balkanicus on April 22, 2011 in the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

 

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  • Friday, April 22, 2011

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