Jazz Singer Vicky Almazidou Performs Song at Opening of BTA Press Club in Athens

Sofia Georgieva, Filip Pavlov

Jazz singer Vicky Almazidou at the opening of the National Press Club of BTA in Athens, February 14, 2026 (BTA Photo/Milena Stoykova)

Athens, Greece,

14.02.2026 15:41

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Jazz singer Vicky Almazidou performed a song by Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis during the opening of the BTA Press Club in Athens on Saturday.

Almazidou was born in Dimitrovgrad to Greek parents. She graduated from the State Music Academy in Sofia, as well as Veliko Tarnovo University аnd the Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv, after which she established herself as a significant figure in the development of jazz singing and music education in Bulgaria and Greece. Her husband was Milcho Leviev (1937–2019), one of the most significant figures in Bulgarian jazz.

As of Saturday, BTA will have 44 press clubs. Of these, 27 are located in the regional centres of Sofia, Blagoevgrad, Burgas, Varna, Veliko Tarnovo, Vidin, Vratsa, Gabrovo, Dobrich, Kardzhali, Kyustendil, Lovech, Montana, Pazardzhik, Pernik, Pleven, Plovdiv, Razgrad, Ruse, Silistra, Sliven, Smolyan, Stara Zagora, Targovishte, Haskovo, Shumen, and Yambol. There are six press clubs in the non-regional cities of Gotse Delchev, Kazanlak, Petrich, Samokov, Svishtov, and Troyan. There are nine outside the country - in Ankara (Turkiye), Athens (Greece), Belgrade (Serbia), Bosilegrad (Serbia), Bucharest (Romania), Odesa (Ukraine), Skopje (Republic of North Macedonia), and Taraclia (Moldova), and at the Bulgarian Antarctic base on Livingston Island. Two press clubs are temporary - aboard the first Bulgarian naval research vessel Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii (RSV 421) and the Book Fair.

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