{"id":855,"date":"2022-02-15T11:31:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T09:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/new\/varna-summer-festival"},"modified":"2022-03-04T12:10:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T10:10:59","slug":"varna-summer-festival","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/en\/festival","title":{"rendered":"Varna Summer Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1644833290230{margin-bottom: 40px !important;}”][vc_column_text]The \u201cVarna Summer\u201d International Music Festival is the first music festival in Bulgaria, founded in 1926 in the city of Varna.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Almost 100 years ago, just after the official opening of the Varna\u2019s Sea Baths in 1926 – the first SPA center in the sea town, emblematic personalities of Varna society at that time, among them the composers Pancho Vladigerov and Dobri Hristov, set the beginning of the first in the country music celebrations, which later turned into the biggest International Music Festival in Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

Having received national and international recognition, today the Festival is a representative forum of Bulgarian and world music and music performing art.<\/p>\n

The slogan of the first organizers “to unite the best music celebrities of the country” finds its continuation and advance in the promotion of Bulgarian music culture in the policy of Festival\u2019s programming. A number of Bulgarian works have been performed for the first time within the “Varna Summer”.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The Festival has multi-genre character and includes the following modules:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Core Program \u2013 symphony and chamber music
\nInternational Summer Music Academy
\nMusic Lab \u2013 Varna
\nRenaissance and Baroque Music
\nOpera and Ballet
\nCrossover
\nIntermezzo \u2013 in partnership with the \u201cVarna Summer\u201d International Theater Festival
\n\u201cVarna Summer for Kids\u201d – series of educational concerts
\nParallel Program \u2013 exhibitions, films, conferences and others[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”232″ img_size=”300×300″ alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]In its more than 90-year long history the Festival has impressed with the presence of soloists, conductors, symphony and chamber orchestras, choirs, opera ensembles, ballet companies from around the world.<\/p>\n

But the ambition of every next festival program is to present at the stage of the “Varna Summer” IMF both the renowned names of the world music culture and young artists – future stars.<\/p>\n

In 1987 the Festival became a member of the European Festival Association based in Geneva. Nowadays, EFA is one of the major non-governmental organizations working at European level in Brussels on the cultural policies of the old continent, which three times consecutively awarded the EFFE Label to “Varna Summer” IMF within the period 2015-2020.<\/p>\n

In June 2019 The Festival was honored with the EFFE label, an Europe\u2019s quality stamp, for its program and organization among 715 festivals across Europe. The IMF, along with 23 of the best festivals in the old continent, received this prize at a special ceremony at the Bozar – Center for Fine Arts in Brussels. The exceptional success of the festival was also confirmed by receiving the AUDIENCE AWARD, which was announced later at the same ceremony and bestowed by the EU Commissioner Tibor Navracsics.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1645016978442{padding-bottom: 70px !important;background: #54215c url(https:\/\/varnasummerfest.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/pagetitle.png?id=222) !important;}”][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Emblematic photos from the festival archive” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff” google_fonts=”font_family:Raleway%3A100%2C200%2C300%2Cregular%2C500%2C600%2C700%2C800%2C900|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1644835320249{padding-bottom: 40px !important;}”]

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