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Following a return to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra for a concert that “blended discipline, direction, and an enormous range of sonic and dynamic contrasts, into a thrilling, thoroughly engrossing performance” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), Bulgarian conductor Rossen Milanov can be heard in three performances with the Florida Orchestra. The program begins with Haydn's Symphony No. 103, "Drum …

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Fresh from his performances of Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the OSPA, Rossen Milanov returns to the United States for concerts in Wisconsin. On April 18 and 19, the Bulgarian conductor is heard with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. The program highlights Chausson's Poème and Bartók's Rhapsody for Violin with soloist Frank Almond. Bookending these two …

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This month, Principal Conductor Rossen Milanov returns to the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias. In the first week of the month, the Bulgarian conductor works with OSPA to further its educational activities in conjunction with Carnegie Hall, LinkUp! The following week on April 10 and 11, Rossen and the OSPA celebrate the Easter season with Mendelssohn’s Old-Testament–inspired …

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On March 30, Princeton Symphony Orchestra Music Director Rossen Milanov returns to the Richardson Auditorium for the fourth installment of the PSO’s classical series. Titled “Nights and Dreams,” the program features a beguiling mix of works by Britten, Berlioz, and Julian Grant. The premiere of the lattermost composer’s Dances in the Dark opens the program, followed by Britten’s Serenade for …

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Principal Conductor Rossen Milanov continues his spring concerts with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias in Gijon and the orchestra’s home of Oviedo, on March 20 and 21, respectively. The program for both performances pairs Debussy’s Three Nocturnes with Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé. Both works also feature the talents of the Choir Leon de Oro. The two works are also performed as part …

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On March 7 and 8, Principal Conductor Rossen Milanov brings the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias to Bilbao's Musika-Música Festival. The pair of performances, with works centered on the festival's 2014 theme of Brahms and Beethoven, mark the Bulgarian conductor's first appearances in the capital city of Biscay. The first program highlights Brahms's Symphony No. 1, while the second …

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Starting March 5, Bulgarian conductor Rossen Milanov leads Ballet Zürich’s revival of Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty. The production reunites Rossen with Swedish choreographer Mats Ek, who recasts somnambulistic princess Aurora as a modern-day drug addict. Writing of the work in 1999, The Guardian notes that the driving message behind Ek’s interpretation is “that there are no happy endings except …

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