ppIANISSIMO 2016: SPECIAL NORDIC EDITION

APRIL 13 – 17, SOFIA
BULGARIAN NATIONAL RADIO, CONCERT STUDIO
Free Entry


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Programme:

13th April (Wednesday), 19:30

Laura Mikkola (FI) – piano

Music by: Einojuhani Rautavaara, Kaija Saariaho, Esa-Pekka Salonen,
Jouko Tötterström & Jean Sibelius

13th April (Wednesday), 21:30

ppIANISSIMO JAZZ

Aki Rissanen (FI) – piano

Music from his albums La Lumière Noire & Sturm, improvisations & more

14th April (Thursday), 19:30

Recomenzar el infinito – Multimedia Performance

Irina-Kalina Goudeva (BG/DK) – voice & double bass

Ejnar Kanding (DK) – live electronics

Borislava Taneva (BG) – piano 
Music by: Bo Lundby-Jæger, Jexper Holmen, Line Tjørnhøj, Ivar Frounberg, Lars Graugaard, Ejnar Kanding, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Wayne Siegel, Yael Acher “Kat” Modiano,
Julia Tsenova, Emil Tabakov & Alexander Tanev

15th April (Friday), 10:00

Danish Contemporary Electroacoustic Music

Workshop of Ejnar Kanding (DK) & Irina-Kalina Goudeva (BG/DK)
Hall No. 48, “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” NAM

15th April (Friday), 19:30

Anna Christensson (SE) – piano

Annastina Malm (SE) – mezzo-soprano

Music by: Hilding Rosenberg, Henning Mankell, Arne Mellnäs,

Stig Gustav Schönberg, Maurice Karkoff & Gösta Nystroem

 

15th April (Friday), 21:30

ppIANISSIMO JAZZ

Aki Rissanen (FI) – piano

Dimitar Karamfilov (BG) – double bass

Atanas Popov (BG) – percussions

Music by: Aki Rissanen, free improvisations and jazz standards

16th April (Saturday), 17:30

Nordic Music Played by Young Bulgarian Pianists

Gergana Nestorova (BG), Lili Bogdanova (BG), Ines Simeonova (BG), Stiliyana Ivanova (BG) & Petar Karagenov (BG) – piano

Music by: Hilding Rosenberg, Hallgrímur Helgason, Arne Nordheim,
Hans Abrahamsen & Magnus Lindberg

16th April (Saturday), 19:30

Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir (IS) – piano

Music by: Jón Leifs, Steingrímur Rohloff, Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson,
Karólína Eiríksdóttir, Anna Þorvaldsdóttir & Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson

 

17th April (Sunday), 17:30

Trio Marmaros

Michael Andreas Grolid (NO) – violin,

Martin Stangebye (NO) – cello &

Oskar Abel Valand Halvorsen (NO) – piano

Music by: Øistein Sommerfeldt, Kristian Lindeman, 
Michael Andreas Grolid, Trygve Madsen & Edvard Grieg 

17th April (Sunday), 19:30

Ellen Ugelvik (NO) – piano

Special guests: Bente Leiknes Thorsen (NO) & Christian Jaksjø (NO)

Music by: Christian Blom, Bente Leiknes Thorsen, Magne Hegdal & Christian Jaksjø

Every evening from 19:30 (prior to the concert)
ppIANISSIMO READINGS

Nordic Poetry in Bulgarian Translation

Read by: Vasil Chitanov (BG)

Selected by: Prof. Vera Gancheva, PhD (BG)

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Programme Plovdiv:

April 16 – 17, Union Hall,

Regional History Museum, Free Entry

16th April (Saturday), 11:30

Trio Marmaros

Michael Andreas Grolid (NO) – violin,

Martin Stangebye (NO) – cello &

Oskar Abel Valand Halvorsen (NO) – piano

Music by: Øistein Sommerfeldt, Kristian Lindeman,

Michael Andreas Grolid, Trygve Madsen & Edvard Grie

17th April (Sunday), 11:30

Tinna Þorsteinsdóttir (IS) – piano

Music by: Jón Leifs, Steingrímur Rohloff, Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson,
Karólína Eiríksdóttir, Anna Þorvaldsdóttir & Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson