Homecoming — Gala Concert with Svetlina Stoyanova & Camerata Bulgarica

One evening, designed as a single story.

Our inaugural flagship public production was the public unveiling of Camerata Bulgarica’s artistic identity — not a sequence of pieces, but a programme composed as one emotional trajectory: from ceremonial brilliance, into intimacy, and on to theatrical dialogue.

Classical masterpieces met newly commissioned arrangements, shaped for this hall and this night — Handel to Márquez by way of Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Pipkov and Gershwin, with fifteen musicians performing without a conductor. Thank you to everyone who was in the hall on 16 September 2026 — at the beginning.

All arrangements: Miroslav Georgiev

1. George Frideric HandelIntroduction from Music for the Royal Fireworks
2. George Frideric HandelHornpipe from Water Music
3. Johann Sebastian BachMinuet and Badinerie from Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart“Parto, parto” — Sesto’s aria from La clemenza di Tito, K. 621Svetlina Stoyanova, mezzo-soprano
5. Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyWaltz from Swan Lake, Op. 20
6. Miroslav GeorgievCarmen Jazz Fantasia, after Georges BizetSvetlina Stoyanova, mezzo-soprano
7. Georgi Zlatev-CherkinSevdanaStoimen Peev, violin
8. Sergei RachmaninoffRhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43Miroslav Georgiev, piano
9. Lyubomir Pipkov“Nani mi, nani, Damyancho”Svetlina Stoyanova, mezzo-soprano
10. George Gershwin“Summertime” from Porgy and BessSvetlina Stoyanova, mezzo-soprano
11. Arturo MárquezDanzón No. 2

Homecoming was a co-production of Camerata Bulgarica and the Sofia Philharmonic.