Choirs from Bulgaria, Denmark and Sweden will perform with the Haskovo Chamber Orchestra on 13 November at 7pm at the Zarya-1858 community centre in Haskovo. Entry is free, Haskovo council said.

The concert marks 90 years since the birth of composer Krasimir Kyurkchiyski. The idea came from choir conductor Mihail Delchev, who was born in Haskovo. The council backed it and is organising the event. It says this is the first concert where choirs from Bulgaria, Denmark and Sweden perform with the city's orchestra. It will also be the first time the orchestra and the choirs share a stage in Haskovo.

Tsanislav Petkov will conduct the Haskovo Chamber Orchestra, and Nikolay Gurbanov will lead the Academic Folk Choir of the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv. The guests of honour are the Sedyanka choir from Denmark and the Perunika choir from Sweden. Delchev conducts both.

The programme includes "Adagio for String Orchestra", "Rufinka Bolna Legnala", "Rano Mi E, More", "Sestro Dobryano", "Pilentse Pee" and other works by Kyurkchiyski. There will also be pieces by Filip Kutev, Georgi Andreev and Nikolay Gurbanov.

Sedyanka is based in Aarhus and has existed since 1994. Its 20 singers give 35 concerts in each season in Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway and the US. The choir has made three CDs of Bulgarian folk music and runs week-long courses in Bulgaria every summer.

Perunika is based in Stockholm and has 19 singers. Delchev founded it in the autumn of 2014. The choir has taken part in three editions in a row of the "Evenings of Culture in Stockholm".

Delchev studied choral conducting in the class of Prof. Vasil Arnaudov. In Haskovo he was chief conductor of the Orpheus Children's Choir and of a men's choir. In 1990 he won a conducting competition at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. In 2025 Haskovo council gave him its Alexander Paskalev grand prize for high achievement in literature and music. Delchev is also Bulgaria's honorary consul in Denmark.