On 27 April at 7 pm on the stage of the State Opera - Stara Zagora begins the Holiday Concert of the graduates of the NUMCI "Christina Morfova" and the orchestra of the opera. The traditional concert is in honor of the birthday of the patron of the music school in the City of Lime - April 24. This time the concert will have two conductors - Krassimir Kushev and Mauro Fabbri and the programme will feature 14 instrumentalists, 9 students from the opera singing classes, the Student Choir and the A Cappella Formation "Hristina Morfova".
You will have the chance to enjoy the performances of Simon Pavlov, who recently returned with an Absolute Prize from the 11th International Piano Competition in Craiova, Romania, Marian Bozhidarov / clarinet / - winner of the International Music Competition and winner of a full scholarship to the prestigious Whitgift School, London, Philip Stavrov, Georgi Belchev, Stefania Ruseva - from the piano classes, students with many awards from national and international competitions.
In the concert will participate: trumpet - Zdravka Vassileva and Ladies Trumpet Trio "Svilena", clarinet - the little Sasho Sashev, flute trio - Alexandrina Tsaneva, Zhaklina Viktorova and Tanya Boneva, xylophone - Galin Penev and Ivaylo Manev . The program includes arias, duets and tercets from famous operas - "The Magic Flute", "The Marriage of Figaro", "La Traviata" by G. Verdi and others.
Among the graduates of the Music School in Stara Zagora are the world-famous opera singer Veselina Katsarova, Genko Geshev /opera singer/ - lecturer at the Faculty of Opera Singing at Duquesne University - Pittsburgh, USA, Nina Naydenova - opera director, director of Opera Plovdiv, Ognyan Draganov - opera director, director of Opera Stara Zagora and many, many other famous musicians, who can be seen on the school's website: http://www.metronom-sz.narod.ru/page-80.html. In the orchestra of the State Opera Stara Zagora play many former students of the NUMSI "Christina Morfova"- Antonia Gencheva /violin/, Veselina Zeynova /contrabass/, Victoria Dimitrova /viola/, Lydia Pencheva /flute/, Mirena Mitreva /percussion/, Mitko Mitrev /trumpet/, Nely Hazan /cello/, Pavlina Dimitrova /cello/, Plamena Peneva /cello/, Renny Filipova /contrabass/, etc.
In the archives of Stara Zagora is preserved the "Regulations" of 11 December 1897 of the first music school in the country, established by the local society "Kaval". Its founders were the champions of musical Stara Zagora - Petko Ikonomov, Georgi Baidanov and the graduate of composition in the Prague Conservatory Dimitar Hadjigeorgiev. This school lasted only a few years, but the spark was lit.
On September 1, 1974, by order D-3 626 of May 8, 1974 of the Ministry of Education, the Music School was opened in the town. In the school year 2001 / 2002 the specialty of classical singing was restored. In the same year, a new specialty, classical dance, was opened. In 2004, another new specialty was introduced - acting for drama theatre - under a project approved by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education, and in 2008 - pop and jazz singing. In October 2006 the school was renamed the National School of Music and Performing Arts.