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On March 7, Rossen Milanov and the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias return to Bilbao's Musika-Música Festival. OSPA's Principal Conductor leads the ensemble in works of Bach and Handel with soloist Daniel Oyarzabal on organ. Handel's Organ Concerto No. 4 is bookended by Bach works as arranged for orchestra by Stokowski, including the Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, "Wachet auf, …

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Rossen Milanov's February continues with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, where he serves as Chief Conductor. This week, he leads concerts in Gijon (February 19) and Oviedo (February 20) that highlight Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, performed by Gabriela Montero. The work is heard alongside Jesús Rueda's Elephant Skin and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15. The following week, …

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On February 5, Rossen Milanov returns to the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra for a concert in the city’s new concert hall, the North Jutland House of Music. The highlight of the evening will be Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, with tenor John Mark Ainsley and hornist Erik Sandberg. The work is preceded by Copland's Appalachian Spring and followed by Tchaikovsky's seasonally-appropriate …

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This week, Music Director Designate Rossen Milanov returns to Columbus for the first of two concert programs with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. The Bulgarian conductor leads Mason Bates’s recently-premiered Cello Concerto on January 30 and 31, featuring soloist Joshua Roman. The work is bookended by Elgar’s Cockaigne, Op. 40 and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, “Organ.” Rossen returns to the CSO …

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On January 22 and 23, Rossen Milanov joins Florida’s Naples Philharmonic for the orchestra’s first concerts of 2015, with a program that focuses on dance-inspired works. The Bulgarian conductor takes the podium for Copland's Appalachian Spring, Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin Suite, and Falla's Three-Cornered Hat Suite. The lattermost work was recorded by Rossen with the Orquesta Sinfónica del …

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This week, Rossen Milanov makes his debut with the renowned Detroit Symphony Orchestra in three concerts given as part of the Davidson Neighborhood Series. Together with violinist Stefan Jackiw, the Bulgarian conductor leads a concert program that highlights Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2, bookended by Mozart's Ballet Music from Idomeneo and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. Performances are heard …

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This Saturday, Rossen Milanov conducts Symphony in C’s first program of 2015, featuring soloist Roman Rabinovich guesting for Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor. The Bulgarian conductor also leads Metropolitan, a work by this season’s winner of the Symphony in C Young Composers Competition, Charles Peck. The program is rounded out with Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony, a work based on …

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