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.
Angel Dyulgerov is a guitarist, violinist, composer, arranger and band leader who, in recent years, has worked with some of the biggest stars of Bulgarian music, such as Lili Ivanova, Lubo Kirov and many others. Alongside his participation in a number..
DEEP ZONE Project presents "Istina/Truth" – their version of the well-known song by Milena Slavova, which marked the Bulgarian music at the turn of the new millennium. The author of the new arrangement - Dian Savov from DEEP ZONE Project – says that he..
The Chamber Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra with artistic director Radosla w S z ul c is among the special guests at the 25th European Music Festival in Sofia . The first performance of the elite ensemble in the..
Young actress and singer Violina Dotseva is ready with her new song “ Spomen ” (“Memory"). She wrote the lyrics and created the music..
A vibrant celebration of Bulgarian folk traditions will take place as part of the European Music Festival in Sofia. On 12 May, students from the National..
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