19 february 2024 Pianist Lilia Zhekova Is The Soloist At The Concert On Thursday

Another event of the State Opera - Burgas for the city of February is a concert that deserves the attention of fans of symphonic music. Under the baton of the distinguished conductor Yordan Dafov, who a few days ago reached the dignified age of 84 years, a diverse concert program, selected with flair and taste, will be presented at the Symphony Concert on February 22, Thursday, at 7 p.m. in the hall of the Burgas Opera House. The doyen in the Bulgarian cultural space, maestro Dafov, is charged with inexhaustible creative energy and may he continue to be a benchmark for the class. Every musical event under his baton becomes an unforgettable aesthetic experience. The Christmas concert under his direction - at the end of December last year, in which more than 150 performers took part on stage - orchestra, choir, Children's Choir "Milka Stoeva", dancers from PFC "Strandja", filled the hall of the Burgas Opera House with emotional audience and became an event with a wide public response.

The soloist of the orchestra of the Burgas Opera at the concert on Thursday is the remarkable young musician Lilia Zhekova, piano, who, in addition to being a concert pianist, is also actively involved in chamber music, as a member of the Chamber Ensemble "Silhouettes" - since 2018, the composition is part of European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA). At the invitation of the BNR, the ensemble presents Bulgaria with a concert broadcast on Euroradio throughout Europe, America and Australia in the annual "Euroradio Christmas Music Day". Since 2016, Lilia Zhekova has been working as a full-time teacher at the Vocal Faculty at the National Academy of Music "Prof. Pancho Vladigerov" - Sofia, since 2020 he holds the scientific degree "doctor". For two years in a row, he was a scholarship holder of the International Summer Academy Vienna-Prague-Budapest (ISA). Lilia Zhekova has made recordings in BNR, participated in a number of national and international festivals.

Vanya Zlateva will be the concertmaster of the orchestra of the Burgas Opera at the concert on February 22.

The concert program includes iconic works from across the classical musical treasury for symphony orchestra: Divertimemto in B-flat major, KV 137 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – an exquisite musical miniature carrying finesse and classic Mozartian elegance, Symphony No. 2 in D major by another great representative of the Viennese classical school – Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven began writing his Symphony No. 2 during one of the most depressed periods of his life and at the same time the most successful of his career. His Viennese period from 1802 to 1812 was the most productive in his biography - he also composed six of his nine symphonies. Beethoven's second symphony is dedicated to his patron, Prince Karl Lichnovsky, he also enjoys published works. His famous "Moonlight Sonata" is also from this period.

Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 20 in D minor, KV 466 by V. A. Mozart will also be performed in the concert program on Thursday. Based on contrasting themes, like other minor works by Mozart, the piano concerto belongs to the most dramatic pages of his work.

Mozart's work is described in words succinctly and amazingly accurately by another musical genius - P. I. Tchaikovsky: "In my deep conviction, Mozart is the highest, culminating point to which beauty in the realm of music has reached."

The symphony concert on Thursday in the hall of the State Opera - Burgas is an invitation to a refined experience with a high musical and aesthetic value.