site.btaIsraeli Music Week Underway in Sofia, December 10-14

A Week of Israeli Music is underway in Sofia between December 10 and 14.

On December 11 at 6 PM, the National Academy of Music (NAM) will host a concert by the Academic Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Adam Ivanov, the organizers said. The concert will feature works by classical and contemporary composers. The soloists will be Israeli musicians Ella Rodan (saxophone), Ofek Barda (saxophone) and Avner Bach (recorder), and Bulgarian violinist Alexander Tyanov.

The festival will close on December 14 with a chamber concert at Dimitar Nenov Hall (6, Acad. Lyudmil Stoyanov Street). NAM teachers and students as well as guests from the Hassadna Jerusalem Music Conservatory and a group called Youth and Music Israel will go on stage. They will perform compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonin Dvorak, Joachim Stutschewsky, Maayan James and Marin Goleminov, among others.