This Friday, Rossen Milanov reunites with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias at the onset of the 2014-15 concert season for a joint concert with the Oviedo Filarmonía. Performing at the orchestra’s home of the Auditorio Príncipe Felipe in Oviedo, Rossen and a combined orchestra of 126 players begin with José Peris’s Variaciones para Gran Orquestra Sobre una Parana de Luys de Milan. …
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Rossen Milanov conducts Peruvian premiere of Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie
This week, Rossen Milanov joins the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional del Perú where he conducts the national premiere of Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie. The dramatic tone poem depicting an Alpine sojourn celebrates its centenary next year, while Strauss himself is being celebrated worldwide in 2014, his 150th anniversary year. The program also features Ligeti’s Atmosphères, made famous for its inclusion …
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Rossen Milanov leads two concerts at Breckenridge
Following his return to the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia, Rossen Milanov is heard this week in two concerts with the Breckenridge Music Festival. Trading Colombia for Colorado, the Bulgarian conductor first leads a free family concert on Friday that highlights Nathaniel Stookey’s The Composer is Dead, a work set to Lemony Snicket’s illustrations and story. The following evening, Rossen …
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Rossen returns to Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia 7/25 and 8/1
Following last year’s trio of widely-acclaimed concerts, Rossen Milanov returns to the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia for two performances over the next two weeks. The Bulgarian maestro first leads the orchestra on July 25 at the Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo with a program consisting of Grieg's Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky's Orchestral Suite No. 3. Pianist Javier Perianes …
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Rossen conducts Béla Fleck and Rachmaninoff in Sewanee
This weekend, Rossen Milanov makes his debut with the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. After conducting a world premiere by banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck on July 19, he leads a the Sewanee Symphony in a July 20 concert at the Tennessee festival’s home on the University of the South campus. The performance highlights Fleck’s concerto The Imposter, featuring the composer as soloist. Also on the program is …
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Rossen Milanov returns to Chautauqua Institution this summer
On July 10, Rossen Milanov returns to upstate New York to lead the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in its summer home at the Chautauqua Institution. The concert begins with the overture to Thomas Adès’s opera The Tempest, followed by Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G with soloist Di Wu. The program concludes with Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances. A favorite conductor at the Institution, Rossen earned …
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Rossen Milanov and OSPA in Bulgaria
In the wake of a 2013-14 concert season that according to La Nueva España, “reached its zenith with Mahler’s giant Symphony No. 5,” Rossen Milanov leads the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias on a three-day tour of his native Bulgaria’s summer music festivals. Rossen and OSPA begin at the Varna Summer International Music Festival with two programs on June 16 and 17. Audiences on the …