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Violinist Borislava Ilcheva gives a brilliant concert in Havana

Photo: FB/BGEmbassyCuba

A concert featuring world-renowned Bulgarian violinist, concertmaster and professor Borislava Ilcheva and the Havana Symphony Orchestra Lyceum Mozartiano, conducted by maestro José Antonio Méndez Padrón, took place at Havana Cathedral. The event was organised to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, the Bulgarian Mission in Havana reported.


An audience of more than 1,000 people, including diplomats and art lovers from Cuba, Bulgaria and other countries, applauded enthusiastically Borislava Ilcheva, who, despite health problems, gave a brilliant performance of works by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). The Lyceum Mozartiano Symphony Orchestra performed works by Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Jean Sibelius and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908).


Bulgarian Ambassador Todor Kanchevski presented flowers on behalf of the Bulgarian Embassy in Havana.


Cuban photographer Lilien Trujillo.




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