Master class for opera conductors by Maestro Dejan Savic

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Master class for opera conductors by Maestro Dejan Savic

From 9 to 21 September the State Opera Stara Zagora hosts the Master Class in Opera Conducting under the guidance of Serbian conductor Deyan Savic. The organization and holding of master classes by distinguished singers, musicians and ballet masters is an integral part of the theatre's repertoire policy. The director Ognian Draganov plans to make September the month for the implementation of such courses, which are extremely important for the development of young talents.

After the exciting and fruitful second Masterclass in Bulgaria of the opera prima Veselina Katsarova, who for 14 days gave all her energy, experience and knowledge to young opera singers from different nationalities, from 9 to 21 September the stage of the Stara Zagora Opera hosted 9 young conductors from Romania, France, Great Britain, Spain, from distant Japan, Australia and the USA. Maestro Dejan Savic, the long-time chief conductor and general director of the Belgrade Opera, will work with the talented musicians and prepare them for their professional debut in chamber and opera titles from the repertoire of the Stara Zagora Opera.

The intensive programme of the course started today, 9 September, as the conductors have their individual and group classes with Maestro Dejan Savic, will be actively and fully involved in the entire rehearsal plan of a performance: rehearsals with the choir and orchestra, with the soloists, seated rehearsals, dress rehearsals and will take turns at the podium during the performance of the respective performance in front of the audience. The course programme includes the operas Love Elixir /12 September/, Don Carlos /17 September/, La Boheme /20 September/ and the ballet La Delvata /21 September/.

The nine young conductors - participants in the Master Class of Dejan Savic are: Matej Pop (Romania), Michael Wittenberg (USA), Guy Davies (UK), Gary Chung (UK), Arnaud Perrier /France/, José Carlos /Spain/, Kevin Purcell /Australia/, Nabuaki Nakata /Japan/, Andrin Holzczy /France/ are winners of numerous international awards.

The performances feature the soloists, choir and orchestra, ballet troupe of the State Opera - Stara Zagora.

DEJAN SAVIC was born in Belgrade into a family of musicians. He graduated with honors in conducting from the Academy of Music in Belgrade, and received his master's degree from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. He specialized under Maestro Berislav Klobukar.
In the period 1985-2000. From 1993-95 he was the artistic director of the famous chamber ensemble Pro Musica. From 1989-93 he was artistic director and chief conductor of the Niš Symphony Orchestra, and since 1993 he has been chief conductor of the Belgrade Opera and Ballet.
In the period 2001-2004. Deyan Savic was general manager of the Belgrade Opera and Ballet. In 2005, he was appointed General Director of the National Theatre-Belgrade and was the first musician to head this prestigious national cultural institution in its 140-year history. In 2007 he took up the position of Director General of the Opera.
Dejan Savic has been a regular guest conductor of the ERT Symphony Orchestra and Choir in Athens, Greece for four seasons.
Among the most famous instrumentalists with whom Savic has worked are names of the stature of pianists Ludmil Angelov, Mihai Unguryanu, Hel Bekelund, Vladimir Kraynev, and Elisso Virsaladze, Dana Borsan, violinists Stoika Milanova, Cristina Angelescu, Luigi Alberto Bianchi, cellists Ksenia Yankovic, Anatoly Krastev, guitarist Alipio Diaz, harpist Anna Verkholantseva and others. Under his baton have sung the world opera performers Dmitra Teodosiou, Makvala Kasrashvili, Olivera Miliakovic, Agnes Balza, Nely Bozhkova, Tatiana Zakarchuk, Bruna Baglioni, Fabio Armiliato, Henrik Engelsviken, Andrei Dunayev, Mauro Agostini, Zhelko Lucic, Franz Joseph Kapelman, Fyodor Kuznetsov and many others.
He has conducted various productions with directors such as Marco Arturo Marelli, Inge Levan, Spyros Evangelatos, Karel Drgacz and others.

He has appeared with some of the most famous orchestras and choirs, as well as with opera and ballet companies on prestigious stages and festivals in Italy, Spain, Austria, Cyprus, Israel, Switzerland, Holland, Ireland, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, USA, Germany, Ireland, Norway, France, Austria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and elsewhere.
He has made radio and television recordings in many countries: for Romanian National Radio, Bulgarian National Television, Greek National Television, several CDs released for PGP on RTV Belgrade, etc. He has won a number of prestigious awards and prizes for his artistic achievements.