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Jazz singer Hilda Kazasyan goes on tour

Photo: courtesy of Hilda Kazasyan

Spring is a season that inspires many an artiste. Surrounded by beauty and burgeoning life, they broach new projects, give concerts, plan tours. Jazz singer Hilda Kazasyan is one such performer - she is starting her second national concert tour in May. What concerts she is planning and where and what music she has included in the concert programme - we find out from Hilda Kazasyan herself:

“The idea to have this tour actually came about two years ago, when I was on my first tour,” Hilda Kazasyan says. “The emotions those concerts induced were so overpowering, so sincere that they made me realize how much I had missed touring. So, I pulled myself together to make an experience as wonderful as this possible for all people who will come to our concerts. We have already played in some of the towns we have included the second time round, but there are many new locations where people can come and hear us perform. The tour starts on 11 May in Stara Zagora, on the following day we shall be in Pazardjik, then in Plovdiv on the 13th, in Rousse on the 25th, in Varna on the 26th, in Dobrich on the 28th May and we wind up in Bulgaria Hall in Sofia on 1 June.”

What will the singer's fans be able to hear:

“We have included new songs, among them the first song I myself have written entitled “If you were here,” Hilda Kazasyan says. “This is the first time I have ever written both music and lyrics, the arrangement is by Hristo Yotsov (percussion) and Zhivko Petrov (piano). I think the song turned out really well. I am glad to say the musicians I work with also liked it. Besides Hristo and Zhivko, the other members of the band are Dimitar Karamfilov (double bass) and Mihail Yossifov (trumpet). We have included other songs of our own, and we shall present our own arrangements of new jazz standards. Overall, we shall be playing the best pieces from our previous tour, but there will be many new songs too.”

After the concert tour comes the summer season and Hilda and the other band members will be very busy: 

“I am planning a summer tour in popular jazz clubs in different Black Sea resorts. Then I shall start preparing for an important event, something that has been a great responsibility in my life - a concert in memory of my father, musician Villy Kazasyan, to take place on his birthday, 8 December. I would like to thank the director of the National Palace of Culture Miroslav Borshosh for inviting me to stage the concert in Hall No. 1. I believe it will be the kind of show that is worthy of my father.”


Audio contains the following tracks:

- Crazy butterflies

- If you were here

- That wonderful mellow age.


English version: Milena Daynova




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