Bled Festival

Contact

Festival Bled

Alpska 74, SI-4248 Lesce

http://www.festivalbled.com

festival.bled@siol.net

Phone384 (0) 4 531 7610

Organised byKranjska Artists Support Society

Jernej Brence, Head

Frequencyannual

Bled Festival poster, 2011

Bled Festival is managed by Kranjska Artists Support Society which organises annual international music competitions. In addition to offering financial prizes, an international jury awards the best competitors. Concerts take place at various venues, including Bled Festival Hall, the church on Bled Island and Radovljica Manor House.

Programme

The festival took off in 1995 and is dedicated mainly to chamber music. In the last decade more concerts have begun to include crossover genres, especially jazz, and a special concert, Night of Slovene Composers, is organised by the Society of Slovene Composers and features new music by the contemporary Slovene composers. From 2011 the programme has been enriched with dance performances.

All the concerts are connected with the international master classes and competition. In the last years awards have been given in the categories of violin, viola, and chamber music.

See also

• Bled Festival Hall
• Kranjska Artists Support Society

External links

• Bled Festival website

Gallery

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 opening concert for the Bled Festival 2016 belonged to Mladi levi, a legendary Slovene rock group founded in 1966 and recently joined by the vocalist Matevž Šalehar - Hamo. The gig took place at the Bled Festival Hall.

The 2016 Rising Starts programme featured the musicians Antoni Brozek and Pjotr Jasiurkovsky as mentors. Both are regulars at the Bled Festival, 2016

The young and highly talented cellist Zala Vidic, playing at the Knights' Hall of the Bled Castle, 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