ENSEMBLES 2011
Chamber Orchestra Music College "Dobrin Petkov" Plovdiv
The State music College in Plovdiv was founded in 1945 and since 1995 is named after the great bulgarian violinist and conductor Dobrin Petkov. The School is proud to have brought up many of the most important musicians, that represent the bulgarian music culture all around the world - the pianists Emma Tachmisian and Aglika Genova, violinists Kevork Mardirosian, Micho Dimitrov, Eugeniy Chevkenov, Mario Hossen, Yasen Todorov, conductors Dian Tchobanov and Nayden Todorov, opera singer Sonya Yoncheva etc.
The Orchestra of The State Music College "Dobrin Petkov" exists from the very beginning in 1945 and through the years has taken part in numerous festivals and concert-tours in Germany, France, Poland, Belgium, Holland, Slovakia, Chech Republic etc, where this young ensemble has been awarded many prizes and has been welcomed by international audiences.
The Orchestra has been recorded and broadcast by The Bulgarian National Radio and Bulgarian National Television and has special concert-series every season, which represent it regularly in its home town of Plovdiv, an ancient city with 8000 years of history, together with Damascus and Athens one of the three oldest cities in the world.
The young musicians who build the string orchestra today and will be taking part at 2011 Summa cum Laude Festival - Vienna are between 13 and 18 years old and are all involved in soloist and chamber music activities in the school
Unter der Patronanz vom Landeshauptmann Dipl. Ing. IVAN TOTEV und mit freundlicher Unterstützung von EUROPA KULTURVEREIN WIEN
