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Choral Society "Slavyanska
Beseda" is a mixed choir composed of children, women and
men based in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
The choir was created by the conductor Elitza
Hristova and the composer Georgi
Popov.
The choir is devoted to the performance of Orthodox music, and the majority of
its repertoire consists of Orthodox chants composed by the composer Georgi
Popov. The choir also performs classical works by other Orthodox composers,
a selection of Bulgarian folk songs and foreign classical and popular
songs.
The choir is also one of the organizers of the
annual International Festival for Orthodox
Music “Theotokos – It Is Truly Meet” which takes place every June
in the town of Pomorie,
Bulgaria.
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News:
5-14
February – Conductor
Elitza Hristova and composer Georgi Popov will travel to Russia within the
framework of the seminar in the special technique of sound production
called bregmophony, to teach the singers of the Children’s Choir at the
Church of the Assumption of Theotos in Krasnodarsk, Russia.
2009
7
Aug – 7 Sept 2009 – Summer
Seminar within the framework of the 6th International Festival
for Orthodox Music in the special technique of sound production called
bregmophony, taught by conductor Elitza Hristova and composer Georgi Popov
in Sofia.
28-29
July 2009
– concerts of the Rachmaninoff Choir,
USA, conducted by
Anthony Antolini in Sofia,
together with Choral Society “Slavyanska Beseda”.
10-14
June 2009
– Participation in the 6th
International Festival for Orthodox Music in Pomorie, Bulgaria.
3-6 October 2008 – Participation
in the Festival of Orthodox and
Slavonic Music, held in Lyons la
Foret, Haute Normandie, France (Festival
de la Musique et chants orthodoxes et slaves “Les nuits blanches de Lyons
la Foret”).
22-30 October 2008 – The
choir traveled on a tour to Russia
to participate in the International Choral Forum “Podmoskovnie vechera” at
the invitation of the chamber choir “Troizk” to celebrate the 30th
anniversary of the Troizk Chamber
Choir.
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