UPCOMING EVENTS
Schedule of Silhouettes Chamber Ensemble
Season 2017/2018
May 26th, 2018, 18.00, City Mark Art Center
Concert ”Cantabile” – Ventseslav Nikolov (cello) &
Silhouettes Chamber Ensemble play together
The new premiere program of the cellist Venceslav Nikolov and Silhouettes Chamber Еnsemble, dedicated entirely to the vocal art is called Cantabile. Songs from Schubert, Liszt, Handel, Vivaldi, Donizetti and Gershwin will be heard on the 26th of May in the wonderful atmosphere of the City Mark Art Center hall. An evening filled with beautiful melodies...
Programme: Pieces from Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Purcell, Donizetti, Wagner, Schubert, Gershwin, Villa-Lobos etc.
Tickets are available at City Mark Art Center. Online tickets reservations at: www.cmart.info
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CERN presents: Music of Physics
A team of scientists from CERN, Geneva, together with composers and musicians, have succeeded turning the experiments with elementary particles
of the Great Hadron Collider into musical notes. The interrelationship between human creations and high technology has led to an amazing musical sound.
Bulgarian audiences will be able to enjoy the magic of this unique combination of physics and music and feel how physicists explore the mysteries of the universe.
Chamber Ensemble "Silhouettes" will also be part of this exciting event performing the Piano trio called
LHC (Large Hadron Collider) by talented contemporary composer Roger Zare.
May 10, 2018, 5:00 PM, Sofia Science Festival: Sofia Tech Park. Sofia, Bulgaria.
May 11, 2018, 7:30 PM, Sofia Music Weeks, City Mark Art Centre. Sofia, Bulgaria.
May 12, 2018, 11:00 AM, Concert Hall of the National Academy of Music. Sofia, Bulgaria.
The Colourful Book
A classical concert for the little ones between 0 and 8 years
In the program performed by Silhouettes Chamber Ensemble and Nadejda Kondaklieva (reader), you will hear small and beloved pieces from Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Saint-Saens, Korsakoff, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Pipkov, Vladigerov and others. The pieces are a part of a colourful fairy-tale with favourite animals, songs and games! You are welcome with your little one to be a part of this colourful musical world.
Next dates of the show
Tickets are available at City Mark Art Center. Online tickets reservations at: www.cmart.info
"Peter and the Wolf" by Sergei Prokofiev
A musical fairy tale for children between 4 and 12 years old and their parents
Silhouettes Chamber Ensemble and Nadejda Kondaklieva (reader) present the tale of little Peter who catches the bad wolf and brings him to the zoo. The bad and the good, the courage and friendship are basically the main discussions in the wonderful musical fairy tale of Sergei Prokofiev "Peter and the Wolf", which is still intriguing for the youngest public. . Silhouettes Chamber Ensemble picked the idea for a children's spectacle to introduce this classical masterpiece to the young ones, to provoke an interest and respect to the art of music, reminding them that being good is never forgotten!
Next dates of the show
Tickets are available at City Mark Art Center. Online tickets reservations at: www.cmart.info
- June 16 - June 23, 2018, Sylt, Germany
- Another participation of Chamber Ensemble "Silhouettes" in the program of "Akademie am Meer", Klappholttal, Sylt, Germany.
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PAST EVENTS
2x2 Concert Series
"Silhouettes" Chamber Ensemble compare their instruments in a concert series, called "Silhouettes" 2 x 2. The first concert was focused on the piano and the clarinet, performed by Lilia Jekova and Kristiyan Kaloyanov. The second concert presented the virtuosity of the violin and the violoncello. Gariela Kaloyanova and Kalina Miteva performed a colorful program of pieces by J. S. Bach, Handel-Halvorsen, A. Honegger, P. Hristoskov etc. And since 2 x 2 =4, the other two "Silhouettes" would be on stage as tellers of the special stories behind the pieces in the program.
”Silhouettes” Chamber Ensemble - Guest Ensemble
of The European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA)
Between September 3rd and September 9th Silhouettes Chamber Ensemble had the honor to take part in the Grossraming session of the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA) in Austria. They worked there with Prof. Hatto Beyerle (Alban Berg Quartet), Prof. Johannes Meissl (Artis Quartet) and the pianist Nicholas Rimmer. Apart from the session, the ensemble also had been part of the K&K Festival, where on September 8th they presented to the Austrian audience the Bulgarian work "Mirages" by Vasil Kazandjiev. The concert took place in Nationalparkzentrum Molln, Austria at 20:00.
The Third Edition
of Sofia Chamber Music Festival Agitato’ 2017
The third edition of Sofia Chamber Music Festival Agitato’ 2017 took place between 17th of October
and 29th of November, 2017. The festival was once again a result of collaboration between Duo ”Collage” and Chamber ensemble ”Silhouettes”.
In the year of 2017 the festival presented international participation - Trio Atanasoff (France), Mettis String Quartet
(Lithuania) and Crush Ensemble.
The concerts held at Studio 1 of the Bulgarian National Radio.
The festival was achieved with the support of Metropolitan program ”Culture” and Bulgarian National Radio.
The Silhouettes Chamber Ensemble opened the Third Sofia Chamber Music Festival Agitato' with a concert
on October 17 at 7.30 pm in Studio 1
of the Bulgarian National Radio. The program includeed Piano Trio by Morris Ravel, ”Mirages” for Violin, cello, clarinet and piano by Vassil Kazandjiev
and Quartet for Violin, cello, clarinet and piano by Paul Hindemith.
”Silhouettes” Chamber Ensemble at Lancaster International Piano Festival, Pennsylvania, USA
Between July 14th and July 24th, 2017, Silhouettes Chamber Ensemble was a part of the Lancaster International Piano Festival (LIPF), Pennsylvania, USA. The musicians were scholarship students and took part in the master classes and concerts during the festival. The ensemble expresses its gratitude to the artistic director of the festival Prof. Xun Pan, as well as Prof. Ivo Kalchev, who supported this participation and made it possible.
Schedule of Silhouettes Chamber Ensemble
Spring–Summer 2017
- March 19 (Sunday) 2017, 18.30, Сity Mark Art Center
- „Encore” – Silhouettes Chamber Ensemble and prof. Ventseslav Nikolov(cello) played together,
the first concert of three concert series
at City Mark Art Center (formerly "Levski" Cinema).
Program: pieces by Handel, Couperin, Vivaldi, Faure, Tchaikovsky, Bartok etc. - March 23–April 4 2017
- Concerts of Silhouettes Chamber Ensemble, islands Sylt and Föhr, Germany.
- April 22 (Saturday) 2017, 18.30, Сity Mark Art Center
- „By Amadeus - personally” – Silhouettes Chamber Ensemble played Mozart, the second concert of three concert series at City Mark Art Center (formerly "Levski" Cinema).
Petromil Denev read passages from Mozart's letters.
Program: Piano Quartets No.1 KV 478 и No.2 KV 493, and Six Nocturnes by Mozart. - May 20 (Saterday) 2017, 18.30, Сity Mark Art Center
- „The Audience Chooses” – Ventseslav Nikolov played at the request of listeners from "Six Suites for Solo Cello" by Johann Sebastian Bach,
the third concert of three concert series at City Mark Art Center (formerly "Levski" Cinema).
Program: "Six Suites for Solo Cello" by Johann Sebastian Bach.
February 16th & 19th 2017
State Puppet Theatre – Stara Zagora
and Chamber ensemble ”Silhouettes” presented
„PETER and the WOLF”
The symphonic tale "Peter and the Wolf" by Sergei Prokofiev narrated by means of puppet theater of shadows.
Audio-visual performance in which the narrator and the whole team turned the music into images.
Create vivid pictures, acting characters and real situations, unifying story that reveals friendship, courage and growth.
By means of the theater of shadows music turns into pictures, and they - in history.
See the music of Sergei Prokofiev!
Premiere on February 16th, 2017 (Thursday) at 18.00 in the hall of the Puppet Theatre - Stara Zagora.
Next performance on February 19th, 2017 (Sunday) от 11.00 in the hall of the Puppet Theatre - Stara Zagora.
For more performances until the end of the theater season follow the program of State Puppet Theatre – Stara Zagora.
Stage adaptation and director: Tzveti Peniashki (debut)
Stage Design and Multimedia: Simona Ilieva
Cast: Tatyana Andreeva, Stanislav Matev, Kiril Antonov, Tanya Georgieva, Kaloyan Georgiev, Dilyana Spasova, Elitsa Stoyanova, Denitsa Yanakieva
Musical Adaptation: Chamber ensemble ”Silhouettes”
19th January 2017
Concert of Chamber ensemble ”Silhouettes”
and State symphony orchestra - Shumen
On January 19, 2017 Kalina Miteva (violin), Kristyan Kaloyanov (clarinet), Gabriela Kaloyanova (cello)
and Lilia Jekova (piano), members of Chamber ensemble ”Silhouettes”, were soloists of the State symphony orchestra
of the town of Shumen, conductor Kalina Vassileva.
The concert took place in ”Prof. Veneta Vicheva” Concert hall (the Municipality's hall) at 18.35 o'clock.
Programme: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra; Peter von Winter - Concertino for Clarinet, Cello and Orchestra; Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto for Violin, Violoncello and Piano and Orchestra, "Triple Concerto"