{"id":12201,"date":"2026-04-22T15:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/event\/bbc-symphony-orchestra-london"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:48:38","slug":"bbc-symphony-orchestra-london","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/program\/bbc-symphony-orchestra-london","title":{"rendered":"BBC Symphony Orchestra London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>14 October, 7:00 PM Congress Hall, Palace of Culture and Sports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can buy tickets online via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventim.bg\/event\/%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD-%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8A%D1%80-%D0%BD%D0%B0-bbc-london-%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%86-%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0-%D0%B8-%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0-21658650\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EVENTIM<\/a> or at the ticket center of the Festival and Congress Center \u2013 every day from 10:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OFFICIAL CLOSING<\/p>\n<p>BBC Symphony Orchestra London<\/p>\n<p>Conductor Sakari Oramo<br \/>\nSoloist Francesco Piemontesi &#8211; piano<br \/>\nProgram<br \/>\nAntonin Dvorak &#8211; Piano Concerto G minor, Op.33<br \/>\nEdward Elgar &#8211; Symphony No.1<\/p>\n<p><em>Under the Honorary Patronage of H.E. Nathaniel Copsey &#8211; Ambassador of the UK in Bulgaria   <\/em><\/p>\n<p>BBC Symphony Orchestra London will put the final touch on this year\u2019s festival program. Founded more than 90 years ago, this remarkable orchestra has constantly been a driving force in the British musical landscape. This concert marks BBC Symphony Orchestra\u2019s first ever visit to Varna. The musicians will be performing under the baton of their chief-conductor Sakari Oramo, famous for its authority, elegance and passion. An accomplished violinist, he was originally concertmaster of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra before holding positions as Music Director for Birmingham Symphony orchestra and principal conductor of Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. Since 2012 Sakari Oramo has been leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra London. Swiss-Italian pianist Francesco Piemontesi has gained a reputation as one of the stellar musicians of his generation, especially when it comes to interpretation of the German classical and romantic repertoire. He appears as a regular guest with many of the world\u2019s leading orchestras, in concert halls and music festivals around the globe with distinguished conductors such as Gianandrea Noseda, Fabio Luisi, Antonio Pappano, Daniele Gatti, Paavo J\u00e4rvi, Zubin Mehta etc. He\u2018s playing is characterized by sensitivity, intimacy and poetry, but also by power and brilliance. In his own words, he does not perform to entertain but to let audience participate in the deep dimensions of music. Piemontese had studied piano with Alfred Brendel, Arie Vardi and French concert pianist Cecile Ousset. Francesco Piemontesi appears in various projects with Renaud Capu\u00e7on, Tabea Zimmermann, Leonidas Kavakos, Janine Jansen, Daniel M\u00fcller-Schott, Stephen Kovacevich, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 October, 7:00 PM Congress Hall, Palace of Culture and Sports You can buy tickets online via EVENTIM or at the ticket center of the Festival and Congress Center \u2013 every day from 10:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. OFFICIAL CLOSING BBC Symphony&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"eventcat":[48],"organizer":[],"event_tags":[80],"location":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/12201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/12201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13766,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/12201\/revisions\/13766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"eventcat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventcat?post=12201"},{"taxonomy":"organizer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organizer?post=12201"},{"taxonomy":"event_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_tags?post=12201"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=12201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}