site.btaFrench Trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary Revisits Sofia

French trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary has come back to Sofia for another concert. On the night of Thursday, February 27, the audience at Sofia's Bulgaria Hall will be treated to a special musical experience as Renaudin Vary performs together with the Sofia Philharmonic under the baton of German conductor Daniel Geiss, the orchestra says.

The concert will include selected masterpieces ranging from Tchaikovsky's Romantic depth through Arutunian's passion and Bernstein's energy to Gershwin's jazz magic. The centrepiece will be Gershwin's symphonic poem An American in Paris, admired by both classical music fans and jazz lovers.

Lucienne Renaudin Vary has been hailed as a "trumpet sensation" by Classical KDFC radio. Winner in the Revelation category of the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2016 and named as one of Classic FM's 30 Under 30 by Julian Lloyd Webber in 2021, her mastery of both classical and jazz repertoire creates a unique presence on today's concert stage. In February 2021 Renaudin Vary released Piazzolla Stories recorded for Warner Classics with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra and Sascha Goetzel, for which she won an Opus Klassik Award in the Young Artist's category the following August. This is her third album as a Warner Artist, following The Voice of the Trumpet (2017) recorded in collaboration with the Orchestre National de Lille and Rolando Villazon, and Mademoiselle in New York (2019), recorded with Bill Elliott and the BBC Concert Orchestra – with whom Renaudin Vary also made her BBC Proms debut earlier that same year – and which received 4 stars in BBC Music Magazine.

Essen native Daniel Geiss studied at Indiana University in Bloomington with some of the most accomplished musicians of our time: conducting with David Effron, cello with Janos Starker, and chamber music with Menachem Pressler. He continued his studies at the Higher School of Music in Cologne with Mikael Luig, the Alban Berg Quartet and Maria Kliegel. After his first conducting engagements in the United States, Geiss went on to appear at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Teatro Real Madrid, Budapest, Linz, Ljubljana, St. Petersburg, Montepulciano, Mecklenburg Volprommern Festival, and Graz. He has conducted the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, the BR Radio Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic. Geiss has worked with soloists such as Sir Bryn Terfel, Daniel Hope, Camilla Nylund, Juan Diego Florez, Albrecht Mayer and Klaus-Florian Vogt. With the collaboration of Katharina Wagner, director and artistic director of the Bayreuth Wagner Festival, Geiss successfully staged a children's version of the opera The Flying Dutchman especially for the Spring Festival Tokyo. The success was confirmed by two direct re-invitations for Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal. Geiss is Artistic Director of the Belgrade Chamber Orchestra and conductor of the BrixenClassics Festival (since 2020).