EUGENE–Two touring Bulgarian folk music groups and an award-winning pianist from California will perform this week at the University of Oregon School of Music, 961 E. 18th Ave.

For more information, call the UO School of Music weekdays at (541) 346-5678. To confirm concert times and ticket information, call GuardLine from a Touch-Tone phone at 485-2000, ext. 2533, for a taped message of the week’s events.

Bulgari, a touring Bulgarian folk music group, will visit the UO campus for a concert and folk dance party. The program begins at 8 p.m. in the auditorium at Agate Hall, 1787 Agate St. Tickets, available at the door, are $10 general admission and $8 for students and senior citizens. A folk dance party with the performers and audience members will follow the concert.

Bulgari consists of six musicians: Georgi Doichev, a premier gaida (bagpipe) soloist with the Philip Koutev Ensemble for many years; Georgi Andreev, a composer and performer of the gadulka (vertically held fiddle), and the current director of the orchestra of the Bulgarian National Ensemble; Dimiter Lavchev, a well-known gadulka and tapan (drum) performer, and a soloist with the Bulgarian National Radio for 20 years; Georgi Zeliazov, a legendary kaval (end-blown flute) player and soloist with the Bulgarian National Ensemble; Anton Tsambov, a performer of the tambura (lute), and a soloist with the Bulgarian National Ensemble for the past 15 years; and Radostina Kaneva, one of Bulgaria’s leading Thracian-style singers and a soloist with Bulgarian National Radio and Television.

The event is co-sponsored by the UO School of Music and the Eugene folk dance community. For further information, contact Mark Levy, (541) 346-2852.

Hans Boepple, an award-winning pianist in Eugene for an appearance with the Oregon Music Teachers Association (OMTA), will give a recital at 4 p.m. Sunday in Beall Hall. Tickets, available at the door, are $7 general admission and $4 for students and senior citizens.

On Saturday, Boepple also will present a free lecture at 10:30 a.m. and a free master class at 2 p.m. at the music school. The lecture, titled "How to Prepare for an Artistic Performance," will be held in Room 198 and is intended for both teachers and students who plan to include performance in their careers. The master class in Beall Concert Hall will feature students from Eugene and Portland districts of OMTA as well as UO piano majors.

Boepple’s Sunday recital will include four impromptus by Franz Schubert, three Argentinian dances by Alberto Ginastera, a nocturne and scherzo by Frederic Chopin, and selections by Cesar Franck and Maurice Ravel.

A professor of music at Santa Clara University since 1978, Boepple has been a guest soloist with many distinguished American orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Long Beach Symphony, Denver Symphony, Oakland Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. His awards include the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition, the MTNA National Collegiate Competition and First Prize in the J.S. Bach International Competition at Washington, D.C. His performances have been broadcast by National Public Radio and Voice of America.

Boepple’s appearance in Eugene is jointly sponsored by the UO School of Music, Eugene district OMTA, Wilson’s Music House and Moe’s Pianos in Portland. For more information about Boepple’s appearance with the OMTA, contact Claire Wachter, 346-3758.

Balkanski Glasove, an ensemble specializing in Bulgarian folk music, will give a free lecture-demonstration of their music at 3 p.m. in Room 178 of the music school. The presentation is open to the public.

The group consists of members of a single musical family from Bulgaria. Donka Koleva is a Thracian singer who graduated from the Folk Music High School in Shiroka Luka. She has performed in and directed a number of professional folk music and dance ensembles in Bulgaria, and has participated in singing competitions throughout Europe.

Nikolai Kolev, a native of Karavelovo in Bulgarian Thrace, began playing the gadulka (vertically held fiddle) at age 10. Since graduating from the Folk Music High School in Shiroka Luka, he has performed as soloist of the Sliven Ensemble for Folk Songs and Dances, and has directed the folk wedding music ensemble Rozova Dolina and the prize-winning ensemble Balkanski Glasove.

Penka and Maria Koleva are Donka and Nikolai’s daughters. They both have been engaged in extensive folk music studies at the Folk Music High School in Shiroka Luka.

For further information, contact Mark Levy, 346-2852.

—30—

#P-2019/A&E