Bled Festival poster, 2011
Bled Festival is managed by Kranjska Artists Support Society which organises annual international music competitions. In addition to offering financial prizes, an international jury awards the best competitors. Concerts take place at various venues, including Bled Festival Hall, the church on Bled Island and Radovljica Manor House.
Programme
The festival is dedicated mainly to chamber music. In the last decade more concerts have begun to include crossover genres, especially jazz, and a special concert, Night of Slovene Composers, is organised by the Society of Slovene Composers and features new music by the contemporary Slovene composers.
All the concerts are connected with the international master classes and competition. In the last years awards have been given in the categories of violin, viola, and chamber music.
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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 2016 Rising Starts programme featured the musicians Antoni Brozek and Pjotr Jasiurkovsky as mentors. Both are regulars at the Bled Festival, 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