CD - Music from the Balkans

Recently I was approached by Miroslav Hristov, a Bulgarian violinist living in USA who's currently a violin professor at the University of Tenesse in Knoxville and ass.concertmaster of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. Together with Vladimir Valjarevic, a Bosnian-Serb pianist who teaches at Mannes College of Music in New York City, they are planing to record a CD consisting in 5 works for violin an piano written by Balkan composers representing: Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania and Serbia.
After a series of consultation the program will include: Enescu (RO), Vladigerov (BG), Skalkotas (GR), Zadeja (AL) and a piece by a young serbian female composer. The program will be first performed in Tenesse and New York City in May 2010 and after that in June they will travel to Bulgaria to record the music with the Bulgarian National Radio and perform as well in Bulgaria and Serbia.

Spring '09 Concerts - Tirana , Russe (BG)

Two acclaimed musicians: Andrea Giuffredi and Alain Trudel visited Balkan musical scenes.
On March 23rd, the renowned Italian trumpet player Andrea Giuffredi, appeared at "March Music Days 2009" Festival in Ruse - Bulgaria, in a trio performance with Bulgarian musicians, pianist Milcho Leviev and singer Vicky Almazidou. His virtuosity was highly regarded from the audience, critics and organizators.
One month later, in April 24th one of Canada's most appreciated conductor Alain Trudel, visited Tirana and directed the Albanian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra. It was the premiere of Bruckner's Symphony No.4 in Albania and abroad premiere of Trudel's composition "Rhea", a piece he wrote in 2008, commissioned by Toronto Symphony Orchestra based on ancient greek mythology.