Association "EUTERPANI": For Me

Association “EUTERPANI” is a legal formation with a noncommercial aim.

Purposes:

• education, realization and integration of talented children from different ethnic groups;

• searching and keeping of live “human treasures” – unique and forgotten traditions and habits;

• development and popularization of instrumental, vocal and dance formations for authentic folklore;

Means for achieving the goals:

* education and opportunities for professional realization of talent children from 3 to 28 year old, which includes;

- theoretical bases of the singing art;

- breathing exercises, articulation and sound making;

- work for range – extension and alignment;

- stage behavior and techniques for mastery of stage fever;

- microphone technique and singing with an instrumental;

- mono and polyphonic singing;

- development of artistic and self confidence;

- learning of characteristic skills for singing in different music styles – opera, pop, rock, jazz, gospel, musical, folklore, orthodox;

* organizing and participation in festivals, concerts and presentations at home and abroad;

* development and realization of projects in the field of culture, education, ecology and tourism;

* making and producing of audio and video recordings;

* participation in TV broadcasts;

* cooperation with organizations, institutions and natural persons at home and abroad.

Association „Euterpani” organizes concerts with art content in the field of folklore, classic, pop music, fine arts and crafts. Every year through the period June – September it takes part in the organization and the implementation of series of art festivals in famous Bulgarian resorts, towns and villages with the participation of dance and vocal formations from country and abroad. The idea is to expand and enrich the cultural program at the Bulgarian resorts, to involve the surrounding villages and the local population more closely with their participation, to show the possibilities, diversity and beauty of our way of life and culture.

The concerts and festivals organized by the Association are for the most part charitable. Participants in them are children, youth and adults from the country, laureates of national and international competitions and festivals.

The Association maintains regular relations with the National History Museum, Sofia. For many years held concerts on the territory of the museum for Christmas, New Year, the Annunciation and the Feast of Sofia. A tradition was created to mark significant dates from the Bulgarian cultural calendar through concert events of the association. Until 2016, "Evterpani" Association was a partner in the EMEE project ("Eurovision. Museums present Europe"). The main idea of the project is to make museums more and more accessible, to present the exhibits in them not only in a regional and national, but also in a European context, and to make the public's participation in the overall process more active. It also develops creative approaches to attract the public and tries to win over a larger number of people who generally do not visit the museum by engaging and activating the visitor.

The Association has been a partner of the National Polytechnic Museum in Sofia since 2014. In connection with the 60th anniversary of the museum in May, the association "Evterpani" participated in the "European Night of Museums" and in the cycle "Family Saturday" of NPTM, dedicated to "Sounds and Music".

Since 2014, the Association has been a partner of the National Academy of Arts in Sofia and the "St. Pimen" Foundation in the "Children's Summer Academy" in August.

The president of the Association „Euterpani” is Anya Kravaeva. She has graduated The Musical Academy for Art and Dance in Plovdiv with specialty „Musical pedagogy and esthetic, choir conduction”, special subject – solo singer. She has rich experience as a choir artist (mezzo-soprano) in professional choirs and operas: „Madrigal”, IKO International Opera – Siena (Italy), Opera Rouse, chamber choir „Sredets”, BNR mix choir, Pleven Philharmonic orchestra, choir „Vega”, private opera „Viva” and opera „Atlantic USA”, “Teatro Lirico D’Europa”, opera Stara Zagora, opera Plovdiv, choir „Nea Ionia” (Athens), choir „Kaval”, Military choir (Plovdiv), chamber choir of MA for Art and Dance (Plovdiv), Collegiums Musicum, choir „Crown”. Anya Kravaeva has taken part in 25 opera and 360 performances in Europe and USA.

She has 30-year experience as a music teacher in state and private schools and kindergartens. She works as a korrepetitor, vocal pedagogue, art director and conductor of children’s choirs, vocal staffs and ensembles in schools and community centers. She is a leader of art school – piano, solfeggio and solo singing, trio for modern music and children’s choir „Orpheus”. She is a director of a Music-Theater Studio „Euterpa” in community center „Hristo Smirnenski”. Took part in the realization of six music CD for kindergartens. She is an author of children’s musical „Plums for Garbage” and a CD with it.

Since 2012 the association “Euterpani” organizes and implements the International Vocal-Instrumental Competition "New Voices, Songs and Arts" in the resort town of Nessebar on the Black Sea, Bulgaria.