More Music in More Venues
Support the Seventh Edition of the
Off the Beaten Path
Chamber Music Festival
July 30, 2025,
Cultural Center, Gotse Delchev
July 31, 2025,
Dimitar Blagoev Community Center, Dobrinishte
August 1–3, 2025
Svetlina Community Center, Kovachevitsa
August 8–9, 2025
Hristo Karpachev Community Center, Karpachevo
In the summer of 2025, the Off the Beaten Path Chamber Music Festival will expand its activities with additional events in Dobrinishte, Garmen (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. Next summer, 2025, we plan to work with composers Valentin Silvestrov (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).
Last but not least, in the summer of 2025, we will again organize 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 retirement home and a special festival concert for the region's children. This time, the concert will occur in the Community Center Iskra (1924), Garmen.
A portion of our ticket sales supports environmental causes in collaboration with local organizations.
Your support is greatly appreciated!
YOU will make all of these initiatives possible as we continue building our programs and expanding our reach in small towns throughout Bulgaria.
If you are in the United States and would like to donate by check or via bank transfer, please email us at neopathbg@gmail.com
All donations made in the USA to our nonprofit 501 (c) (3) Friends of the Off the Beaten Path, Inc. are tax-deductible.