FIFTH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR ORTHODOX MUSIC
“THEOTOKOS - IT IS TRULY MEET”

 7-11 JUNE 2008 - POMORIE, BULGARIA

    The Festival is held under the patronage of

His Grace Ioanikij, Bishop of Sliven.

    Executive director of the Festival is

the Mayor of the town of Pomorie Eng. Peter Zlatanov.

   Organizers:

the Municipality of Pomorie,

the Sliven Diocese,

the Cultural Centеr “Slavyanska Besseda”- Sofia.

Sofia university "St. Kliment Ohridski"

Republic of Bulgaria "National agency for the Bulgarians in abroad"

The FIFTH International Festival for Orthodox Music “Theotokos - It Is Truly Meet” is organized as a response to the  growing  interest  in  Orthodox music, in its preservation  and  dissemination, in  the  creation  and  performance of modern Orthodox chants worldwide.

The organizers will have the pleasure for the FIFTH time to welcome choirs from Bulgaria and abroad in the picturesque Black Sea resort Pomorie from the 7th to 11th June 2008.

The  participants  will  have the opportunity  to  visit some of the  most  famous historical  and  cultural sights along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast in the region of Bourgas, Pomorie and Nessebar.

Festival Director:   Dafinka Staneva

Technical Director: Elica Hristova

Selection Committee:

Prof. Dimitar Dimitrov - Chairman
Jordanka Tudjarova - conductor
Georgi Popov - composer

Organizing Committee:

priest   Ivan Stoikov,

Dimitrinka Manceva, Maria Tenekejieva, Borjana Terzieva

Chairman of the Festival Committee is associate professor Dimitar Dimitrov – head of department in the Theological Faculty of Sofia University “St. Climent Ochridski”, and conductor of the choir at the Cathedral “Alexander Nevski”, and also conductor of the choir “St. Joan Kukuzel”.

Members of the Committee:

Conductor Jordanka Pancheva – Tudjarova – a lecturer in music and head of the theoretical department at the National High-School of Music and Performing Arts in Burgas.

Composer Georgi Popov – winner of a number of awards in Bulgaria and abroad