20 March 2005
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The Bulgarian clarinet-player Ivo Papasov - Ibryama won the Audience Award in the category `world music` of the prestigious Radio BBC 3 Awards. This became known at the BBC concert on the 5th of March in the British town Gateshead.
Papasov was awarded this prize through the vote of the audience all over the world, given via internet and telephone. The reason for this nomination was the CD `Fairground` (Panair), released in 2004 by Kuker Music in Germany.
Among the musicians also competing for this Award, and being finalists were Chehade Brothers from Palestine, the Italian saxophone payer Enzo Avitabile and the Turkish-Canadian band Mercan Dede.
Other performers who climbed the scene on the 5th of March were Tinariwen (Award in the category `Africa`), Lhasa (Award in the category `America`), Amparanoia (Award in the category `Europe`), Youssou N’dour (`Critics Award`).
Ivo Papasov has this great musical talent and unusual technical skills. His improvisations distinguish with extraordinary vitality and fastness of the tempo on the one hand and unexpected incursions in the sphere of jazz on the other. His performances are always inspired with the original traditional folklore sound, even when different forms are aimed.
The beauty of his melodies gives him the power to change us! (Kuker Music)
On the 26th of February 2005 Ivo Papazov and his wife, the folklore singer Maria Karafezieva, performed a gala concert at the ethno-festival of the Northern peoples in Oslo, Norway. In USA is currently circulating another CD of the clarinet virtuoso, recorded last year in New Jersey. For 2005 Papazov’s program is full with engagements. About 90 concerts in Europe and America are already scheduled by the International Organization `The Voice of the Gypsies`. The realizing of one very ambitious and hard project is at hand: Ivo Papasov and Friends, which, in the order of a jam-session, is planned to include both professional and amateur musicians.
Papasov was awarded this prize through the vote of the audience all over the world, given via internet and telephone. The reason for this nomination was the CD `Fairground` (Panair), released in 2004 by Kuker Music in Germany.
Among the musicians also competing for this Award, and being finalists were Chehade Brothers from Palestine, the Italian saxophone payer Enzo Avitabile and the Turkish-Canadian band Mercan Dede.
Other performers who climbed the scene on the 5th of March were Tinariwen (Award in the category `Africa`), Lhasa (Award in the category `America`), Amparanoia (Award in the category `Europe`), Youssou N’dour (`Critics Award`).
Ivo Papasov has this great musical talent and unusual technical skills. His improvisations distinguish with extraordinary vitality and fastness of the tempo on the one hand and unexpected incursions in the sphere of jazz on the other. His performances are always inspired with the original traditional folklore sound, even when different forms are aimed.
The beauty of his melodies gives him the power to change us! (Kuker Music)
On the 26th of February 2005 Ivo Papazov and his wife, the folklore singer Maria Karafezieva, performed a gala concert at the ethno-festival of the Northern peoples in Oslo, Norway. In USA is currently circulating another CD of the clarinet virtuoso, recorded last year in New Jersey. For 2005 Papazov’s program is full with engagements. About 90 concerts in Europe and America are already scheduled by the International Organization `The Voice of the Gypsies`. The realizing of one very ambitious and hard project is at hand: Ivo Papasov and Friends, which, in the order of a jam-session, is planned to include both professional and amateur musicians.