55th International Chamber Music Festival – Plovdiv 
June7th – 22nd, 2019, Ethnographic Museum – Ancient Plovdiv

Tickets: EVENTIM https://www.eventim.bg/bg/bileti/mezdunaroden-festival-plovdiv-etnografski-muze-starinen-524308/event.html
at the ticket office in front of the Plovdiv City Hall and at the Ethnographic Museum 
 
June 7th, Friday, 8:00 PM, Ethnographic Museum
 
OPENING CEREMONY
ILYA KONOVALOV – violin, Israel
Concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
ALEXANDER KOLEV – piano, Bulgaria
Igor Stravinsky – Suite Italienne for violin and piano                        
Johannes Brahms – Violin Sonata No. 1 G dur, op. 78 
Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Sonata No. 9 A dur, op. 47 “Kreutzer”
Manuel de Falla – Suite Populaire Espagnole
Duration: 110 min. (with intermission)
 
June 9th, Sunday, 8:00 PM, Ethnographic Museum
ALEXANDER KAIMBACHER – tenor, Austria
ANNA SUSHON – piano, Israel
Franz Schubert – “Winterreise” Song Cycle, op. 89 (24 songs on poems by Wilhelm Müller)
Duration: 80 min.
 
June 12th, Wednesday, 8:00 PM, Ethnographic Museum 
LUTOSŁAWSKI PIANO DUO, Poland
EMILIA SITARZ – BARTŁOMIEJ WĄSIK
Ignacy Jan Paderewski – Tatra Album, op. 12
Antonín Dvořák – Slavonic Dances: No. 2 „Dumka“ e moll, op. 72; No. 7 „Skočná“ c moll, op. 46; No. 8 „Sousedská“ As dur, op. 72; No. 8 „Furiant“ g moll, op. 46
Camille Saint-Saëns – Dance Macabre, op. 40
Moritz Moszkowski – New Spanish Dances, op. 65
Edvard Grieg – Two Norwegian Dances, op. 35
Franz Liszt – Mephisto Waltz No. 1 
Duration: 80 min.
 
June 13th, Thursday, 8:00 PM, Ethnographic Museum
50 Years on Stage
Concert and Exhibition 
MICHO DIMITROV – violin, Bulgaria
Concertmaster of the State Opera – Plovdiv
IREN KAPELOVSKA – piano, Bulgaria 
260th anniversary of Händel’s death
120th anniversary of Vladigerov’s birth
Georg Friedrich Händel – Violin Sonata No. 3 F dur
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Menuet
Ludwig van Beethoven – Romance G dur, op. 40
Franz Schubert – Sonatina No. 3 g moll
Georg Friedrich Händel – Violin Sonata No. 6 E dur
Antonín Dvořák – Romantic Piece, op. 75 
Reinhold Glière – Waltz
Pancho Vladigerov – Song from “Bulgarian Suite”
Rodion Shchedrin – “In the Style of Albeniz”; “Humoresque”
Duration: 75  min.
 
June 14th, Friday, 8:00 PM, Ethnographic Museum 
SIMÓN IBÁÑEZ GINES – clarinet, Spain
JUAN CARLOS CORNELLES – piano, Spain
Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Sonata No. 2 Es dur, op. 120
André Messager – Solo de concours
Giacomo Miluccio – Rhapsody for Clarinet Solo
Camille Saint-Saëns – Clarinet Sonata Es dur, op. 167
Giuseppe Verdi–Donato Lovreglio – Fantasy on Themes from the opera La Traviata
Duration: 70 min. (with intermission)
 
June 15th, Saturday, 8:00 PM, Ethnographic Museum 
MAGDA AMARA-VLADAR, Russia
Piano Recital
Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonata No. 31 As dur, op. 110          
Johannes Brahms – Three Intermezzi, op. 117
Frédéric Chopin – Ballade No. 1 g moll, op. 23
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Prelude No. 10 h moll, op. 32; Prelude No. 4 D dur, op. 23; Prelude No. 2 B dur, op. 23
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Sonata No. 2 b moll, op. 36 (2. Version)
Duration: 110 min. (with intermission)
 
June 16th, Sunday, 8:00 PM, Ethnographic Museum 
TIBOR KOVÁC – violin, Slovakia / Austria
Soloist of the Vienna Philharmonic
Solo Recital
Johann Sebastian Bach – Chaconne of the Partita No. 2, BWV 1004
Niccolò Paganini – Caprice No. 17 Es dur, op. 1
René Staar – Ständchen
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst – Grand Caprice on Fr. Schubert’s “Der Erlkönig”
Fritz Kreisler – Recitativo and Scherzo-Caprice, op.6
Eugène Ysaÿe – Sonata No. 6 E dur, op. 27
Niccolò Paganini – Theme and Variations on “Nel cor piu non mi sento” from G. Paisiello’s opera “La Molinara”
Duration: 60 min.

June 18th, Tuesday, 8:00 PM, Ethnographic Museum
PULDIN PIANO TRIO
NIKOLAY MARINOV – piano
STEFAN HUBENOV – violin
ZIAD QASSEM – cello
Dobrin Petkov National School of Music and Dance – Plovdiv
Teacher Detelina Marinkeva
Antonin Dvořák – Piano Trio f moll, op. 65               
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Elegiac Trio g moll
Astor Piazzolla – “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires” 
Duration: 75 min.
 
June 21st, Friday, 8:00 PM, Ethnographic Museum 
Solo Recital
MILEN KIROV – piano, Bulgaria / USA
presents his latest author’s CD
An original and extraordinary amalgam of jazz, gospel, contemporary classical music and Bulgarian folklore, interpreted with creative imagination and brought about by the mastership of improvisation.