Since 1995 held each summer in a picturesque Alpine town, the Bled Festival is a classical music festival with quite a broad horizon, thus also regularly inviting jazz, chanson or folk artists. Furthermore, concerts are but a part of its programme that has a very strong focus on young musicians. Not only does an international cast of mentors works with them via workshops and masterclasses, young and upcoming players also make up a sizeable part of the line-up.
The festival is managed by Bled Culture Institute and led by its Artistic Director of many years, the acclaimed musician Jernej Brence.
Cello Attacca! is a group of young cellists, joined and led by their professor Karmen Pečar Koritnik. They closed the 2016 edition of Bled Festival with a concert at St. Martin's Church, Bled.
Venues
Concerts take place at various venues in Bled, including Bled Festival Hall, the Bled Castle, the church on Bled Island and the Cafe Belvedere. Some places outlying towns are sometimes also featured, like the baroque-built Radovljica Manor House.
Programme
Some of the guests from abroad in recent years include the Chicago Master Singers (US), Melbourne String Ensemble (AU), the Russian choir of the Voronezh State Philharmonic (known as Voronezh Girls, RU), the Tartini String Quartet.
Playing at the Cafe Belvedere, the group Oriyon presented their take on classical French chanson at Cafe Belvedere, one of the Bled Festival venues, 2016
Education
Concerts are accompanied by masterclasses and outreach workshops where master musicians will share their knowledge with young talents. In the course of more than 20 years, the masterclasses of Festival Bled have been attended by over 2,000 aspiring musicians, many of whom have by now gained international renown.
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Bled Festival poster, 2011
Cello Attacca! is a group of young cellists, joined and led by their professor Karmen Pečar Koritnik. They closed the 2016 edition of Bled Festival with a concert at St. Martin's Church, Bled.
The 2016 Rising Starts programme featured the musicians Antoni Brozek and Pjotr Jasiurkovsky as mentors. Both are regulars at the Bled Festival, 2016
Playing at the Cafe Belvedere, the group Oriyon presented their take on classical French chanson at Cafe Belvedere, one of the Bled Festival venues, 2016
A concert of young jazz musicians at one of the cafes above the Bled lake, 2016
Professor Saewon Suh is not only regularly performing at the Bled Festival, he often also brings some outstanding (and mostly Korean) young musicians with him, 2016
The dance collective Schmerlitz, a folklore dance group of Lusatian Serbs, performing at the Bled Festival, 2016