PERCUSSION COMPETITION: The creator and the president of "PENDIM" Enterprise is Mr. Pencho Penchev. He teaches percussion instruments in the Secondary Music School "Dobrin Petkov" - Plovdiv, Bulgaria PENDIM stands for sticks, mallets & percussion instruments manufacturing, as well as the organization of the International Competition for Percussion Instruments that will have its Sixth Edition in 2009. The PENDIM Competition is becoming one of the most influential and interesting events in classical percussion & marimba music in Bulgaria. Together with the great assistance of other outstanding Bulgarian percussionists, Mr. Pentchev has managed to attract the attention, enthusiasm and support of internationaly renown performers and teachers such as Peter Sadlo, Katarzyna Mycka, Li Biao, Emmanuel Séjourné and more. In the last 2007 edition of the competition next to serving as a jury member T. Koleva was also invited as a special guest and representative of the Concorde Marimba's and Pustjens Percussion Products - PPP company (www.pustjenspercussion.nl) from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. With joined efforts they provided a track full with percussion instruments and in this way the competition had an excellent base for its more than 60 participants. In addition to that a new 'PPP / TK Education Prize for young Bulgarian talent' was established and in 2007 it was awarded to 17 years old Victor Benev from Sofia. A great news: Pustjens Percussion Products - PPP agreed to be the official sponsor for the up-coming Sixth Edition of the PENDIM Competition 8-15 March 2009!!