All-Georgiev night: Concert at the European Music Festival: Concertos for Marimba and Contrabass Clarinet, and a World Premiere: conducted by the Composer: 19 April

Composer’s Portrait Concert featuring Martin Georgiev’s Contrabass Clarinet Concerto Soul Searching and Percussion Concerto No. 3 Genesis in chamber versions, and the World Premiere of Lifepath for Strings was conducted by the composer alongside his String Quartet No. 1, at the European Music Festival at Varna, Bulgaria, on 19 April 2017, featuring leading international percussionist Tatiana Koleva, outstanding British contrabass clarinettist Scott Lygate, String Quartet “Frosch” and prominent Bulgarian contrabassist Margarita Kalcheva. The all-Georgiev concert at the full auditorium of the City Art Gallery “Boris Georgiev” ended with a standing applause and was met with a critical acclaim.

Programme:

Lifepath for Strings (World Premiere) | String Quartet Frosch, Margarita Kalcheva: Double Bass

Soul Searching – Contrabass Clarinet Concerto (chamber version)| Scott Lygate: Contrabass Clarinet, String Quartet Frosch, Margarita Kalcheva: Double Bass, Martin Georgiev cond.

String Quartet No. 1 | String Quartet Frosch: Negina Stoyanova, Petia Dimitrova, Maria Vahanova-Liubenova, Viktor Traykov

Percussion Concerto No. 3 Genesis (chamber version for Marimba, Strings and Percussion) | Tatiana Koleva: Marimba, String Quartet Frosch, Margarita Kalcheva: Double Bass, Zornitsa Spiridonova: Percussion, Kalina Hristova: Percussion, Martin Georgiev cond.

Photos by Elite Music Agency