Penka Kouneva is among the nominations for this year’s Grammy awards for Best Classical Compendium for the album Women Warriors: The Voices of Change, which includes works by the the Bulgarian-born composer. The album is a celebration of global activists fighting for social justice.
Penka Kouneva has been a composer, orchestrator and soundtrack producer for more than 20 years. She has graduated from the Lyubomir Pipkov National Music School in Sofia, and then the National Academy of Music. In 1990, she was awarded the Mary Duke Biddle Graduate Fellowship at Duke University where she studied composition and orchestration. In 1997 Kouneva received a Ph.D. degree in composition, after which she started her Hollywood career as composer.
Penka Kouneva’s most notable works include The Woman Astronaut , A Warrior’s Odyssey, Play for Japan etc.
One of the best violinists in the world and concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam Vesko Eschkenazy is back home, in his native Sofia. The reason - the two closing concerts of the national tour of the project "In the World of..
A few days before his birthday and a month before his big concert at Arena Sofia, Lyubo Kirov has released another single from his album Novo Sarce (A New Heart) - the heartfelt ballad Vsichko e nared (It's Alright). As usual, Lyubo wrote the lyrics,..
The music of world-famous Bulgarian composer and pianist Milcho Leviev will be performed tonight (October 28) in Bulgaria Hall in Sofia. The "Legend of Milcho" concert of the "Sofia Soloists" Chamber Ensemble under the baton of..
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