The National School of Arts „Panaiot Pipkov”  jointly started in cooperation with the Municipality Pleven the preparation for the second festival for Marimba in Bulgaria.
From July 5th until July 12th 2012 the city of Pleven will be transformed in a center of music and percussion players.
The festival will provide incredible opportunity for the young musicians to work with Svet Stoyanov, a driving force in modern percussion and an associate professor and director of percussion at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami and  the Vassilena Serafimova, one of the young hopes and talents in the percussion world, winner of the famous ARD Contest / Munich and 5th World Marimba Competition / Stuttgart.
The main idea of The second festival for marimba in Bulgaria is to give the opportunity to young musicians to create new contacts, play and communicate together as partners and colleagues on the stage.