Skopje, 6 July 2023 (MIA) — The Philharmonic will give a concert in Dubrovnik, Croatia, performing Croatian composer Blagoje Bersa's Idyll for Orchestra as well as the Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 by Camille Saint-Saëns, Pajdushko by Macedonian composer Filip Ivanov, and the Symphony No. 4 in B♭ major, Op. 60 by Ludwig van Beethoven.

The concert will be conducted by Borjan Canev and present Marija Gjoshevska as piano soloist.

Borjan Canev (b. 1973, Skopje) has been the Philharmonic's resident conductor since 1999. A graduate of the Faculty of Music in Skopje, Canev earned his Master’s degree at the State Academy of Music Pancho Vladigerov in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2001 he spent a year in London at the Royal College of Music earning his Postgraduate Diploma in Performance Conducting, also attending master classes with Sir Simon Rattle, Danielle Gatti, and Janos Fürst.

He has conducted various performances at Ohrid Summer Festival, Skopje Summer Festival, May Opera Evenings, Days of Macedonian Music, and at festivals abroad including George Enescu Festival, Kotor Art Festival, Zagreb Summer Evenings, Varna Summer Festival, NOMUS, and World of Music festival Zagreb.

Marija Gjoshevska (b. 1980, Negotino) has a PhD from the Faculty of Music in Skopje, where she studied under Boris Romanov. She has received awards at competitions in the Czech Republic, Italy and France. She has performed recitals at festivals such as Ohrid Summer Festival, Heraclea Nights in Bitola and in the USA, England, France, Italy, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Croatia, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria.

She regurarly performs with the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra as well as with Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Musical Youth of Macedonia and the Festival Orchestra of Ohrid Summer Festival. Gjoshevska teaches piano performance and composition at the Faculty of Music in Skopje. mr/