Bled Festival

Contact

Festival Bled

Alpska 74, SI-4248 Lesce

http://www.festivalbled.com

festival.bled@siol.net

Phone384 (0) 4 531 7610

Organised byBled culture institute

Jernej Brence, Head

Frequencyannual

Festival dates3.7.2017 - 16.7.2017

Bled Festival took off in 1995 and is dedicated mainly to chamber music, though it also includes crossover genres, especially jazz. Each year there is also a special concert, Night of Slovene Composers, organised by the Society of Slovene Composers and featuring new music by the contemporary Slovene composers. The festival is managed by Bled culture institute.

Venues

Concerts take place at various venues, including Bled Festival Hall, the Bled Castle, the church on Bled Island and the Radovljica Manor House.

Programme

Some of the guests from abroad in previous years include Chicago Master Singers (US), Melbourne String Ensemble (AU) and Tartini String Quartet.

All the concerts are connected with the international master classes and competition, with about 2000 participants so far.

In addition to offering financial prizes, an international jury awards the best competitors. Awards have been given in the categories of violin, viola, and chamber music. As of recently, there are also painting exhibitions.

See also

• Bled Castle
• Bled Festival Hall
• Kranjska Artists Support Society

External links

• Festival Bled website
• Bled Culture Institute 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