Dr. Nickolai Kolarov
... a concert Cellist, Lecturer /Ethnomusicologist and the Artistic Director of Balkanicus – Balkan contemporary chamber music series and ensemble since 2003
We do not know about… ( the Balkan music ) in this country….It is music of great interest and you (Nickolai Kolarov)..are doing a terrific job promoting it in the very best way…
Samuel Adler, composer
Juilliard School,
Eastman School of Music
Professor of Composition
..Your performance of Ivan Spassov’s Burlesque for cello and piano was especially impressive…
L.Michael Griffel,
Juilliard School,
Music History Department Chair
…I am very thrilled. If you play it on the moon I will be still very delighted...
….marvelous performance ( cello-clarinet-piano trio )…. it is real happiness to every composer to be performed in such a way.
Vassil Kazandjiev, composer
Bulgarian Academy of Science and Bulgarian Academy of Music
Academician and Professor
Samuel Adler, composer
Juilliard School,
Eastman School of Music
Professor of Composition
..Your performance of Ivan Spassov’s Burlesque for cello and piano was especially impressive…
L.Michael Griffel,
Juilliard School,
Music History Department Chair
…I am very thrilled. If you play it on the moon I will be still very delighted...
….marvelous performance ( cello-clarinet-piano trio )…. it is real happiness to every composer to be performed in such a way.
Vassil Kazandjiev, composer
Bulgarian Academy of Science and Bulgarian Academy of Music
Academician and Professor