Off the Beaten Path Chamber Music

In the summer of 2025, the Off the Beaten Path Chamber Music Festival will expand its activities with additional events in Dobrinishte, Garmen (both in South-Western Bulgaria), and Karpachevo (North-Central Bulgaria) and will again present programs in the town of Gotse Delchev and the village of Kovachevitsa. Following the success of the new works we commissioned and presented to Bulgarian audiences in 2023-2024, our concert programs will continue to focus on creating new compositions for the festival's musicians and presenting premieres of international works in Bulgaria. Each premiere will combine specially selected masterpieces from the classical chamber repertoire. In the summer of 2025, we plan to work with composers Valentin Sylvestrov (Ukraine) and Kenji Bunch (USA) and premiere a string trio by Bulgarian-American composer Henri Lazarov (1932-2013), whose works are unknown in Bulgaria. We will continue collaborating with Bulgarian composers Dobrinka Tabakova and Petеr Kerkelov by presenting their compositions in new venues. Our special guest artists include world-renowned musicians Karin Dornbusch, clarinet (Sweden / Switzerland), Monica Ohuchi, piano (USA), and Stefan Arzberger, violin (Germany). In the summer of 2025, we will again organise the Singing Hearts music camp for children from Southwestern Bulgaria, led by Mariana Karpatova. The camp will take place in the town of Gotse Delchev. The programs will include concerts at the Gotse Delchev Park and the town’s retirement home and a special festival concert for the region's children. This time, the concert will take place in the Iskra (1924) Community Center in Garmen.

Tickets and the full program will be available in March 2025