ARBANASSI SUMMER MUSIC 2019

The 10th anniversry edition of Arbanassi Summer Music Festival for classical chamber music will be held from 21 to 28 July 2019. The festival week includes four concerts in museum chruches St. George (21 and 28 July) and Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel (23 and 25 July) in Arbanassi, starting at 19:30.
The Festival is hosted by the Regional Museum of History - Veliko Tarnovo and is organised by VZW Arbanassi Summer Music (Belgium) and Veliko Tarnovo Municipality. Its founders are Julita Fasseva and Dimitri Mestdag, who are also artistic directors of the festival. It holds the prestigios EFFE label (Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe) of the European Festival Association for 2019-2020.
Concerts
Sunday, July 21 at 19.30h 
SAINT GEORGE CHURCH – ARBANASSI
“Bulgarian composers” 
Insight for string trio - Dobrinka Tabakova
“Prituri se planinata” for double bass solo - Julita Fasseva
Five sketches for string quintet - Marin Goleminov
String quartet in G - Pancho Vladigerov
Selection of string pieces - Tsenko Minkin

Tuesday, July 23 at 19.30h 
CHURCH OF ARCHANGELS MICHAEL AND GABRIEL - ARBANASSI
“The Russian soul”
String quartet nr.2 in a - Anton Arensky
Serenade for strings - Peter Tchaikovsky

Thursday, July 25 at 19.30h
CHURCH OF ARCHANGELS MICHAEL AND GABRIEL - ARBANASSI
“French perfumes”
Sonata for bassoon and ensemble - Camille Saint-Saens
Sonata for clarinet and ensemble - Camille Saint-Saens
Chants d'Auvergne for soprano and ensemble - Joseph Canteloube

Sunday, July 28 at 19.30h
SAINT GEORGE CHURCH – ARBANASSI
“Celebration concert 10 years Arbanassi Summer Music”
Bagatelles for ensemble - Antonin Dvorak
Arpegionne sonata for ensemble - Franz Schubert
Cinq pièces en trio - Jacques Ibert
Hungarian dances for ensemble - Johannes Brahms

Performers:
Alexander Somov – cello
Amrei Liebold – bassoon
Teodora Atanasova - cello
Hedi Kerpitchian – violin
Demna Gigova - viola
Dimitri Mestdag – oboe
Lore Binon - soprano
Pierre Xhonneux - clarinet
Julita Fasseva – double bass
Maéva Laroque - violin
Samuel Barsegian - viola

Tickets available at the Tourist Information Centre on 5 Hristo Botev St, Veliko Tarnovo
www.velikoturnovo.info , email: tic@velikoturnovo.info
Tel. +359 62 622 148
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