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As announced earlier today, Rossen Milanov will become the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra’s ninth Music Director. The Bulgarian conductor, who first conducted the orchestra in 2011, will take over the post beginning with the 2015 season with his public debut slated for July 2, 2015. He will conduct 10 concerts with the symphony throughout the 2015, 2016, and 2017 seasons. “I am very pleased to …

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This weekend, Rossen Milanov makes his Ópera de Oviedo debut with a double-bill that pairs Strauss’s Four Last Songs with Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle. The Bulgarian conductor and Chief Conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias leads his orchestra in performances taking place on October 12, 14, 16, and 18. Ricarda Merbeth is heard as the soprano soloist in the Strauss work, …

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This week, Principal Conductor Rossen Milanov returns to the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias for concerts in Gijon (October 2) and Oviedo (October 3). The Bulgarian maestro opens the program with Mozart’s ballet music from Idomeneo, Grieg’s Piano Concerto with Javier Perianes, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2. The concerts open OSPA’s subscription season. Click here for …

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On September 26, Rossen Milanov makes the first of several major debuts this season when he appears with New York City Ballet. In his premiere outing with the company, the Bulgarian conductor leads Stravinsky’s The Firebird with Teresa Reichlen, Ask la Cour, Savannah Lowery, and Andrew Scordato dancing the principal roles choreographed by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins set against Marc …

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The Columbus Symphony announced today that Rossen Milanov will be its next music director. The Bulgarian maestro assumes the title beginning with the 2015-16 season and will hold the post for four years. “We are excited to welcome Maestro Milanov to our Columbus community! He brings a passion, creativity, and vision to symphonic music that, when coupled with our extraordinary talented group of …

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This Saturday, music director Rossen Milanov and Symphony in C begin their 2014-15 season of concerts with a Wanamaker Organ spectacular at Macy’s Philadelphia. Performing in Macy’s seven-storey court, built to house the massive instrument, Rossen and the orchestra offer a trio of works with soloist Peter Richard Conte. The Wanamaker Organ boasts the distinction of being the largest operational …

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On August 28, Rossen Milanov returns to Durban, South Africa to lead the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic in three orchestral classics. The Bulgarian conductor, who appeared with the orchestra for two concerts last September, joins soloist Shlomo Mintz for Mendelssohn’s soaring Violin Concerto on a program that also hears the composer’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture and Brahms’s Symphony No. …

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