Frédéric Chopin

Turkey's Directorate General of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) head Mehmet Görmez has offered replacing the funeral march with Quran verses or an Ottoman hymn during the funerals of the fallen soldiers, as he cited letters from the families of the victims. 

The 4-day classical music event held at the Gennadius Library in Athens came to a successful end with crowd attendance exceeding all expectations.

The 29th International ?zmir Festival started on May 26 with a concert by the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra, founded by Italian maestro Riccardo Muti, who has been decorated with the greatest honorary medals of many countries. 

Hakon Austbo, regarded as one of the Norwegian grand masters of the piano, will hold a recital at the Romanian Athenaeum, on May 18, informs a release of the organisers remitted to AGERPRES on Friday.

Photo credit: (c) Constantin DUMA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

The 13 year old pianist from Ruse, Nikolay Dimitrov had the unique opportunity to play Elton John's Red Grand Piano at London's Royal Albert Hall.

The talented Bulgarian played Frederic Chopin's legendary Fantasie-Impromptu at the gala of the Grand Prize Virtuoso contest in the UK capital.