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The pianist from Ruse Nikolay Dimitrov will have an extremely exciting summer. The 22-year-old musician is once again part of the EU Youth Orchestra for its summer tour, which will include interesting projects.
The orchestra is already rehearsing in Austria, where they will be performing for the first time. On July 26, at various locations in Vienna, musicians will join in the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Viennese modernist Arnold Schoenberg. There will be five programs, and in one of them Nikolay Dimitrov has been chosen to give a solo recital. He will present six fugues by Bach and six pieces by Schoenberg.
The concert program of the EU Youth Orchestra will be conducted by Ivan Fischer, who is the new music director of the formation. It includes Masquerade by British composer Anna Klein, Variations on a Nursery Rhyme for piano and orchestra by Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnany, featuring British pianist Isata Cane-Mason as soloist, and Symphony No. 1 in D Major by Gustav Mahler.
The first symphonic concert of the orchestra will take place on August 3 at the festival in Grafenegg /Austria/, after which the ensemble will travel to New York. The most interesting part of the tour will be there – the participation in the festival project WOW /World Orchestra Week – b.a./ at Carnegie Hall. In the great hall of Carnegie Hall, seven youth orchestras from different continents will meet: the EU Youth Orchestra, the National Children’s Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the African United Youth Orchestra, the Beijing Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Afghan Youth Orchestra, the National Youth Orchestra of the USA and the NYO2 Youth Orchestra. The concert of the EU Youth Orchestra in the “Carnegie Hall” will be on the evening of August 6, and a day earlier – on August 5, musicians from all bands will have a unique experience. All over 700 orchestra players will participate in a large-scale “play-in” event at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York. World-renowned conductor Gustavo Dudamel will lead the program, in which Nikolay Dimitrov will perform two of the works – “Olympic Fanfare and Theme” by John Williams, written for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, and Final Dance “Malambo” from the ballet ” Estancia’ by Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera.
The last concert of the program, in which Nikolay Dimitrov participates, will be on August 10 in the Italian city of Bolzano at the Bolzano-Bozen festival.