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Interview with Hristo Popov by Galya Mladenova

Hailed as “Virtuoso-violinist extraordinaire” by Musical Horizons, Hristo Popov, brings tremendous experience to the concert stage. Popov made his orchestral debut at the age of nine and since then has performed throughout the United States, England, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, Switzerland, and Mexico as both recitalist [...]

Interview by Yana Radilova with Kelvin Sholar
Kelvin Sholar: I want to transfer life into music through inspiration

You have been related to music since your early childhood. Have you ever been interested in other kinds of art?
Yes! I love reading good writings and have had a few poems published. Now, Iʼm writing a book on music [...]

Dessislava Berndt’s interview with the boogie-woogie musician Axel Tsvingerberger
Translation: Yana Radilova

The 12th International Jazz Festival in Bansko ended 13 August 2009. This last jazz festival added to my life two new acquaintances – the style boogie-woogie and its most talented practicer – Axel Tsvingerberger.

I happened to be an interpreter of the Hamburg musician at one [...]

Germany those days is like an art stage! I’ve already got you acquainted with last year’s Let’s Go Home. After its success the talented Charlotte Friling surprised us with another amazing project – Recast.
Now, full of energy as ever, she will amaze us yet again with the incredible second Art Barter which will be held [...]

An interview by Yasen Vasilev and Natalia Nikolaeva with Virginia Zaharieva
Translation from Bulgarian: Asya Draganova

“Stories can teach, repair mistakes, enlighten the heart and chase away the dark, they can provide psychological shelter, and contribute to change and the healing of wounds.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The reason for our meeting with Virginia Zaharieva is her [...]

Adriana Dimitrova’s interview with photographer Dare Darlington

Self Portrait – Bang-a-licious
Asking a photographer questions isn’t very easy. So, at the beginning, how would you like to introduce your works?
Gosh, that’s tough, um.. I think I’d say something like: My greatest wish for my art is emotion. I want something to be felt and sensed, and [...]

Interview by Yana Radilova with the music band RISE

How did you get involved with music?
Chloe: We got involved in music in many different ways. Firstly, our parents are folk musicians and brought us up with old time Appalachian music and dance since we were little girls. We spent many weekends in the mountains [...]

Kosara Belnikolova’s interview with the violinist Ivo Stankov

Ivo Stankov has become one of the Bulgaria’s leading artists of his generation. He has performed extensively as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral leader in numerous countries.
Ivo’s studies took place at Dobri Hristov School of Music and Arts in his
hometown Varna, the Royal Conservatoire in Madrid and [...]

Denka Koleva’s interview with Teodora Yordanova
Teodora Yordanova: Salsa is my passion
Teodora Yordanova was born in Sofia in 1990. For a year she has been living and studying architecture in Milan. She started learning ballet when she was three.
When she was twelve-years-old, she began her salsa training with Alfredo Torres. From 2006 to 2008 she danced [...]

An interview with the guitarist and music composer Yoni Vidal by Dessislava Berndt
Yoni, what is the meaning of music for you?
For me music is a mixture of different sounds respecting the harmony and the color of each other that, when put together, become a powerful creation that can create emotions and memories to us, humans.

Photo: [...]

Interview with composer and pianist Mario Grigorov by Dessislava Berndt
Mario Grigorov: “I strive to remain open, young at heart and curious about life”

Photography: Joanna Wilson
Mario, what does music mean to you?
This is not an easy question for me to answer because I have been playing the piano since I was 4. I might take [...]

“Let’s go Home” – does that ring a bell? That is a show Public-Republic informed you about a couple of months ago. It was a project curated by the talented Charlotte Friling. Her new exhibition in association with An Paenhuysen is called RECAST.
Participants:
Die Tödliche Doris

Sasa Kovacevic

Wolfgang Müller

Ming Wong

Location:
.HBC
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 9
10178 Berlin

Interview with Tzvetelina Tchendova by Dessislava Berndt
Translation by Asya Draganova

Tzvetelina, how and why did you decide to deal with jazz?
I was 11 years old when my dad, who had been abroad, brought home a record of Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess”. I think that’s when I fell in love with this kind of [...]

Yoni Vidal
to be continued

Photo: Patricia Bouquillon
ORCHARD LIGHTS
I remember the first time that I went there. It was Thursday of May 1994. Just after landing, my colleagues and I took a cab from Changui airport to Jalan Lada Puteh (“our” street for the following four months) and crossed that big avenue. I was so surprised! [...]

Interview with Brian Russell by Andrew Micheli

Brian Russell is the author of Meeting Dad: A Memoir, which is being released April 1, 2010 from Accents Publishing, Lexington, Kentucky. After more than twenty years of working in the theater as a director and producer of plays, musicals, and operas, Brian shifted his focus toward writing. He [...]

Yoni Vidal
“Spice Road” is a project made by two good friends: Anthony Jonathan Richter and me, Yoni Vidal. For us, life is music and music is passion…

Photo: Patricia Bouquillon
Our first meeting was in Singapore at Fabrice’s World Music bar in March 1998. Toni Richter was member of the club and a formal customer for [...]

Interview with Syrian composer and pianist Malek Jandali

The touch of the hand on the piano is the purest expression of the soul. At least this is how I feel
Is it possible to create music compiled between melody based on the oldest music notation in the world, discovered in the ancient city of Ugarit, Syria dating [...]

Interview with Sealiah by Dessislava Berndt
Translation: Nadejda Nikolova

Sealiah was formed in 1999 and is comprised of Daniela Miteva and Franck Helwina .Their music mixes the Bulgarian voice of Daniela with Spanish, oriental and gypsy rhythms, combining traditional music with a modern sound.
The band has sold more than 35,000 copies of their first album “World Influencia” [...]

Interview with Laura Chukanov by Dessislava Berndt

Foto: Arthur Garcia
Laura, why and how did you decide to enter the contest for Miss Utah?
I was at a point in my life where I felt that I had to do something that forced me to organize. It needed to be something that I felt I could be good [...]

An interview with the pianist Ivan Yanakov by Natalia Nikolaeva
Translation by Iva Kuncheva

Just before the concert of Ivan Yanakov on 26th November 2008 in Hamburg (organized by the German-Bulgarian society in Hamburg and the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin) I got a chance to meet the famous Bulgarian pianist and got an exclusive interview special [...]