MUNICIPALITY OF PLOVDIV, Department of Culture announces that due to bad weather conditions, the event "THE ROAD TO THE TOP", which was supposed to take place today on Bunardjika, is CANCELED. The new date will be announced further, after negotiations with the participants, who are over 50 on the 6 stages in the program of this year's edition.

THE ROAD TO THE TOP
Third edition, this year on September 18!
Music event on Bunardjika Hill with free entry.
Organizer - Municipality of Plovdiv, Department of "Culture, Archeology and Cultural Heritage" and "Central" district
 

PROGRAM:

SCENE 1 - AQUEDUCT

"CHILDREN IN THE ORCHESTRA" CONCERT - winner of the 2021 Plovdiv Award. in the Music section

Duration – 2 sets of 45 min. Between 17.30 - 20.00

 

"Children in the Orchestra" is a concert in which children from the "Children's House" Children's House Plovdiv play together with graduates of the "Divizi" music house and the professional musicians from the orchestra of Opera Plovdiv. The first concert of this project, carried out by the House of Musical Magic "Divizi" in 2021. won the Plovdiv Award in the "Music" category. In its continuation, you will be able to hear works by Mozart, Weber, Vivaldi, Leroy Anderson and Petko Stainov. The soloists are the children Boyan Slavov - percussion instruments, Petra Terziyska - violin and Altanai Asenov - percussion instruments, as well as our special guest Boyan Ivanov - clarinet, who will arrive from London for the concert. The conductor will be maestro Konstantin Dobroikov. House of musical magic "Divisions" has as its mission early childhood musical education and upbringing. Currently, over 50 children between the ages of 4 and 15 are trained there, who study various classical musical instruments, solfege, history of music, ensemble playing. Graduates of "Divisions" participate in national and international competitions and are winners of numerous awards.

 

SCENE 2 – SUMMER THEATRE

ETERNA Gallery organizes a "Children's workshop" with art teachers

"JAZZ FOR CHILDREN" CONCERT

Duration – 2 sets of 45 min. Start 16.00

 

"Jazz for Kids" are a series of educational and entertaining concerts for young and old, which give the audience the opportunity to actively participate in the performances of jazz pieces, popular children's songs, arranged in the styles of ragtime, bossa nova, funk, bebop, as well as classical plays. It was started in May 2010 in the capital club "Chainata" by the famous Bulgarian trumpeter - Vencislav Blagoev, and young jazz musicians. For twelve years, the project has been enjoyed by audiences from all over the country, it has visited capital clubs, kindergartens, cultural centers, music, specialized and general education schools, as well as the festival stages "Days of Music in the Balaban House" (Plovdiv), "Martenski music days" (Ruse), "Jazz Forum Stara Zagora", "Jazz in Burgas", "Blagoevgrad Jazz Fest", "Dixie Jazz Fest - Veliko Tarnovo, "Jazz under the stars on the Devetash Plateau" and others. In 2012 "Jazz for Children" received the "Golden Feather" award for contribution to Bulgarian culture, and in 2016 - "ProKultura" for contribution to the development of young people's access to culture.

Vencislav Blagoev - trumpet and host

Stanislav Arabadzhiev - piano

Dimitar Blagoev - guitar

Mihail Ivanov - double bass

Nevena Grigorova - drums, vocals

children - percussion and songs

 

SCENE 3 – FITNESS AREA

PAINTINGS BY PIAZOLA

Duration – 2 sets of 45 min. Between 17.30 - 20.00

 

"Piazzolla Paintings" will immerse you in the passionate world of tango with the music of Astor Piazzolla. From the rich repertoire of the composer, some of his most famous works will be performed, such as Adios Nonino, Libertango, Oblivion, Violentango, etc. This is a project of the accordionist Kaloyan Kumanov, created in 2021 for the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Piazzola and for the second year in a row it is part of the biggest festivals in Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Vratsa, Peshtera and other stages all over Bulgaria.

"Pictures from Piazzola" is presented by the soloists: Kaloyan Kumanov - accordion, Victoria Karidova - violin, Ralitsa Boteva - piano, Edith Unjiyan - vocals

 

SCENE 4 – JAZZ

DIXIELAND OL' STARS JAZZTET

Duration – 3 sets of 45 min. Between 17.30 - 20.00

 

For 35 years, the musicians of DIXIELAND OL' STARS JAZZTET have been the basis of many successful formations for old jazz - University Ragtime Band, Alexandrov Ragtime Band, Dixie Jokers, Fantasialand Dixie Band, etc. Their repertoire includes hundreds of pieces and songs in ragtime, dixieland and swing styles. Besides being wonderful instrumentalists, most of them also love to sing, especially with the audience. In the program we will hear jazz themes interpreted in the characteristic improvisational style of the form.

Nevilian Gemizhev – clarinet

Pavlin Pavlov - trombone

Alexander Kumanov - banjo

Prof. Vladimir Radulov - piano

Dimitar Uzunov - tuba

Stefan Kozhuharov - drums

Vencislav Blagoev - cornet and leader

 

SCENE 5 - ON THE ROAD CORNER

MAGDALENA PETROVICH FROM BULGARIA LOOKING FOR TALENT

Duration – 3 sets of 45 min. Between 17.30 - 20.00

 

Magdalena Petrovich is a Bulgarian cellist born in Serbia. Participated in various music festivals - "Rutesheim Cello Academy" in 2016 working with Jakob Spahn, Wen Xin Yang and jazz cellist Stefan Braun as well as in the "Pablo Casals" festival - France in the class of Niklas Schmidt.

Her musical education began at NMU "Lyubomir Pipkov" - Sofia, then continued at one of the leading music conservatories in London - "Guildhall school of Music and Drama" in the class of Professor Stefan Popov. She studied for one year at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague - The Netherlands with Larisa Hroneveld. In 2018 he graduated from the "Pancho Vladigerov" MA in the class of Professor Anatoli Krastev. He attended master classes in Europe by leading musicians in the field, such as Franz Bartholomew

(Vienna Philharmonic), Venceslav Nikolov, Vladimir Perlin, Harro Ruisenaars, Mario Brunello, Dilyana Momchilova. Magdalena has also worked with Michel Strauss (Paris Conservatoire), Andrew Shulman, Alexander Somov and Rinat Ibragimov.

 

SCENE 6 - ON THE TOP OF BUNARDJIKA

MARTIN DENEV DJ SET

Start - 19.30

 

Martin Deneuve is a pianist, keyboardist, composer and DJ. He graduated from a music school in Plovdiv with a degree in piano, then a conservatory in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, majoring in jazz. Meanwhile, a year of jazz piano followed in Berklee, Boston, and then Latin piano in Santiago de Cuba. Martin has performed at hundreds of festivals and forums on five continents and has shared the stage with some of the most prominent musicians and singers of our time. To date, Martin has released 14 albums on labels in England, Germany, Indonesia, Australia, China and America, with many compositions climbing to the top of the world's most renowned contemporary electronic music charts. Until 2020 Martin Deneuve lives on the island of Bali, Indonesia, where he is a music director, producer and participates in dozens of projects with musicians from all over the world.

 

"WORLD CINEMA IN MUSIC" CONCERT

WITH HILDA KAZASYAN, VASIL PETROV, THEODOSIY SPASOV AND THE PLEVEN PHILHARMONIC

Start – 21.00. Duration – 1.30 min.

 

"World cinema in music" is a touch of the soul. This is an incredible performance, performed by Hilda Kazasyan, Vasil Petrov, Teodosii Spasov and the wonderful Pleven Philharmonic under the direction of Borislav Yotsov. This is a concert that dispels the darkness in the souls shriveled by reality. "World Cinema in Music" takes us to the world of "Once Upon a Time in America", "The Godfather", "Kill Bill", "Cabaret", "Flashdance", "Pretty Woman", the films of Charlie Chaplin and many others. It brings us back to that time of joy and carelessness, of light and peace. It makes us forget our difficulties and opens wide the door of happiness. Wonderful performers and musicians recreate wonderful music created by great composers. The weather is suitable for touching the beautiful. Right now, the world of music needs to be rediscovered. Because it is no longer just art and pleasure. She is already a healer of people suffering from reality. She heals, through her strongest weapon, beauty. She brings that ethereal lightness that makes people look inside themselves and discover the secrets hidden deep within their souls. The time devoted to "World Cinema in Music" is full and absorbing. This is an opportunity to start feeling and sensing. To open your senses, to that magical incredible world that surrounds us, but we, immersed in the everyday, seem not to notice.

On stage, in addition to the Pleven Philharmonic conducted by Borislav Yotsov and the soloists Hilda Kazasyan, Theodosii Spasov and Vasil Petrov, there are also some of the best jazz musicians in Bulgaria - Zhivko Petrov, Hristo Yotsov, Dimitar Karamfilov, Mikhail Yosifov. The multimedia that complements the atmosphere of each performance is a special work of Vasil Kirkelanov, and the new arrangements were made by Hristo Yotsov again especially for the occasion.