Regional Historic Museum, the Hall of the Exposition "Bulgarian Unification, Saedinenie Square
Beginning: 8:00 p.m.
Tickets (at the door): 12 BGN

FERNANDO OTERO
http://www.fernandootero.com/
He has written music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, string quartet, choir, and solo instruments as piano, violin and cello, being many of his compositions commissioned and premiered by performers like the Kronos Quartet
-like "The Cherry Tree". premiered in Carnegie Hall in February 2008- and the Imani Winds ensemble. Among his recent works he wrote a Solo Violin sonata for Nick Danielson, Solo Piano Works for Krisztina Wajsza, a Cello Concerto for Inbal Segev, piano trios for the Ahn Trio, and an album for two pianos performed by himself and Yana Reznik.
Due to the nature of his compositions and performance, he was embraced by both New York classical and jazz scenes. He has performed with legendary bassist Eddie Gomez (who introduced Otero as one of the pianists of the new generation) , flautist Dave Valentin, the Arturo O’Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, and was featured in the Grammy Award-winning album Funk Tango by reed maestro Paquito D’Rivera, with whom he has also performed at Birdland, Blue Note, and the Caramoor Classical Music Festival. Fernando Otero has written and produced soundtracks for movies and recorded in more than 40 albums.

DAGMAR SPAIN
http://www.danceimprints.com/about/
Dagmar Spain (dancer, choreographer, actor, director), born in the Czech Republic, received her dance training in Frankfurt, Germany and in New York (MFA) where she resided for 20 years. At age ten a ballet teacher planted the seed of her joy in improvisation, which eventually led to her discovery of choreography. This joy influences all her artistic choices including acting and directing.
In 2000 Dagmar founded her company Dance Imprints to ensure continuous original works collaborating with filmmakers, musicians, directors, actors and dancers. Her company has produced three evening length works: A/Part (2004), Beside Me (2008) and Re:turn (2009) and a dozen shorter works, choreography for the plays Marat/Sade directed by Mel Rada (2012) Dokola (2012) directed by Jay DeJonker and Sacrifices (2014), a site-specific work directed by Vanessa Gendron. Internationally her work has been presented in Germany, Canada, the Czech Republic, France and Japan.