It is an event within the International Festival of Wind Orchestras, dedicated to the famous Bulgarian composer Diko Iliev.!
About Diko Iliev
Diko Iliev was born on February 15 (1898). in the village of Karlukovo, Lukovitza district, in the family of Tsona and Ilia Dikovi.
Diko Iliev (1898–1984), composer · Naum Torbov (1880–1952), architect.Here he is studying to the fourth unit. Already a little interested in music. He produces a willow whistle himself. When he was 11 years old he heard the sound of the musical instrument for the first time, and from that moment dreams to play it.
In 1911 Diko Iliev became a musician student in the Military Wind Orchestra of the 16th Lovech Regiment in the town of Orhanie - present day Botevgrad. Then he is 13 years old.
Andrey Chaprazov was born on 16 February 1920 in Oryahovo in the family of Mikhail and Setka Chaprazov.
He starts studying the trombone, as the Fligor places are occupied. Already after the fifth month he shows skill and talent and is included to play in the orchestra. It is well known that little Diko writes on his blackboard notes of his first creative melody.
The orchestra's conductor rigorously asks who wrote the notes, and if they can be deleted they can write them again. Diko Iliev admits, erases the written and re