International competition for trumpeters in Stara Zagora
News публикувана на: 30.10.2019
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An international competition for trumpeters will be held in Stara Zagora from 4 to 8 November in the hall of the RB "Zahariy Knyazheski". This year marks the 25th anniversary of the competition and its 10th edition as an international one.
The competition was initiated by trumpet teacher Pencho Penchev, who is also its artistic director. In this year's edition, 37 participants from 13 countries, divided into 4 groups, gathered in the City under the Lime Trees:
First group - up to 13 years
Second group - from 14 to 18 years
Third group - from 19 to 22 years
Fourth group - from 23 to 26 years
The Bulgarian participants are 5 - from the host city Stara Zagora, Plovdiv and Burgas. The foreign participants are 32 - from Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, North Macedonia, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, etc.
The international jury of this year's competition will be chaired by h.a. RSFSR prof. Andrey Ikov- Russia - first trumpeter of the famous ,,Bolshoi Theatre" and professor at the Moscow Conservatory,,P.Y.Tchaikovsky''.
Members of the jury are Prof. M. Vaso Ristov from Northern Macedonia, professor at the University of Skopje, long-time first Prompter of the Macedonian National Opera and now its General Director, Prof. Dr. Sergiu Carstea from Romania, lecturer at the University of Timisoara, soloist of the National Opera of Timisoara, prof. Igor Ceccoho from Poland, former solo trumpet of the Wroclaw Philharmonic, professor at the Music Academies of Wroclaw and Lodz and Svetoslav Vassilev former graduate of the Music School, student of Pencho Penchev and now one of the most successful teachers at the Music School in Burgas, as well as first solo trumpet of the State Opera Burgas, winner of the Third Competition for trumpeters - Stara Zagora.
Master class for the participants will be given by prof. Andrey Ikov on 7 November from 9 am to 1 pm.
Within three consecutive days the participants will compete for the prize places and the right to perform on November 8 at 7 pm in the hall of the House of Culture (former Syndical) on stage - in the Gala concert of the winners and the jury accompanied by the orchestra of the Stara Zagora Opera.
There will also be a surprise for the audience. Igor Chetsocho will present for the first time (world premiere) the specially written work for the competition by the Polish composer Miroslav Gasiniecz - POEM for trumpet and symphony orchestra
The concert will be led by the young and talented conductor Viktor Krumov.
The competition for young trumpeters started in 1995 as a national competition, the only one in Bulgaria for this specialty. Since the third edition it has been open for international participation, and the next IV is international. The idea for its creation was the trumpet teacher Pencho Penchev, who is also the artistic director of the competition. The competition developed very quickly and gained wide international recognition. Participants from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Germany, Malta, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Croatia compete in front of an authoritative international jury. Especially for the competition, Bulgarian composers write pieces for trumpet, which become compulsory and are performed by the participants. These are: professor Alexander Tekeliev, Kiril Lambov, Petar Petrov, Veselin Karaatanasov, Nikola Takov, Vanya Angelova, Tsvetti Dimitrova, Yordan Dafov and Yovcho Krushev. Traditionally, the competition ends with a concert of the winners and the jury accompanied by the orchestra of the Stara Zagora State Opera.
