Project Origin

BACK TO THE ROOTS

• A sonic journey

After five intense years as a soloist with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra and a member of the Sofia National Opera, and after performing on stages in Italy, China, Kuwait, Switzerland, Vienna, Berlin and beyond, I felt the need to open a more personal artistic space: a place where orchestral experience, the memory of landscape and the search for a sound of my own could come together.

The origin of this project does not lie in a break, but in a sense of continuity. I grew up close to the mountains, and that relationship with air, distance, echo and open spaces has always been part of the way I listen. Even during my years of training and professional work abroad, that connection remained present, like a resonance in the background.

My first encounter with the alphorn dates back to 2004, during the International Horn Symposium in Valencia. That sound stayed engraved in my memory: expansive, direct, essential. Over the years, and after an intense career in the orchestral and stage world, that initial impression gradually took on a new dimension, becoming the centre of an artistic search of my own.

This project is born precisely from that: the need to transform a sound memory into a living experience. A proposal that brings together my path as a performer, my bond with the landscape and the desire to bring to the stage a sonority capable of connecting the intimate with the immense.

• Roots of a vision. From the mountain peaks to the contemporary stage

This project proposes an encounter between two seemingly distant spaces: the breathing of the mountains and the focused listening of the concert hall.

Here, the alphorn emerges as a stage voice of great poetic force: a bare, deep and physical sonority, capable of transforming space and creating an immediate connection with the audience. Its presence does not seek to reproduce a folkloric postcard, but to open an artistic territory where tradition, landscape and contemporaneity can enter into dialogue from a present-day perspective.

Although its presence on Spanish stages has so far been exceptional, this project seeks to give the alphorn a place of its own within the concert world, revealing its ability to move, surprise and inhabit different spaces: auditoriums, churches, theatres, natural settings and contemporary staged proposals.

I invite you to join me and discover how the silence of the mountains sounds in the heart of the city.