Balkanicus - 12th Annual Concert of Balkan Contemporary Music

Saturday, April 23, 2016at 7:30 pm

Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall, U of M School of Music, West Bank Campus - Ferguson Hall

2106 4th St S, Minneapolis, MN 55455

FREE and open to the public.

Balkanicus 2016 will feature a program of American and World premieres from Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, and Turkey. Two chamber music pieces by the pillar of the Bulgarian avant garde Vassil Kazandjiev—one a World premiere—are included. The other World premiere is a work by the Turkish composer David Esra Okonsar. For the first time at Balkanicus music by Croatian Antun Tomislav Saban, Serbian Dusan Bogdanovic and from Bosnia and Herzegovina—Vojislav Ivanovic and Svjetlana Bukvich.

The 2016 concert features leading musicians from the Twin Cities area who collaborated many times on Balkanicus concerts—faculty, guest performers and graduate students: percussionist Fernando Meza, tenor John De Haan, cellist Nickolai Kolarov, pianist Jill Dawe, and harpist Min Kim, Yordan Dimitrov is the reader.

brought to you by BIBACH – Balkanicus Institute for Balkan Art, Culture and History

http://www.bibach.org

http://www.bibach.org/index.php/en/performances/upcoming-events/14-twelfth-annual-concert-of-balkan-contemporary-music-balkanicus