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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 […]

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. […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

An interview with Desislava Slavova by Natalia Nikolaeva Translation by Iva Kuncheva Foto: Dessislava Slavova “If you can dream it, you can do it” Walt Disney I like the moments when a person materializes a reality out of their dreams. I admire people who can put love, time, patience and faith into their dreams and […]

In Kill This Woman Svetlana Atanassova Grabs the Emotions of the Audience When Svetlana Atanassova is on stage in this play by Mayia Pramatarova, she holds nothing back. Yet, miraculously, she does not appear exposed or vulnerable. It is those of us sitting in our comfortable theater seats that begin to feel defenseless when she […]

Mariana Velichkova’s interview with the composer and musician Andrea Centazzo Tell us please how your carrier as a musician and a composer has started? I never had regular music school training when I was young, basically I was mostly drumming and singing with a schoolmate rock band until I was 22. After that I decided […]

Katerina Stoykova-Klemer Снимка: jsome1 Often I Wish I Were a potato. Eyes opened in all directions. Unafraid of the cold earth. The difference between life and death for somebody.

Interview with Nancy Ross-Flanigan by Cathy Shap Nickola Halfway through my teens, in the mid-1960s, my father abruptly announced he was moving the family from Oklahoma to a pin-dot of an island in the South Pacific. Strange Territory is a story about learning to feel at home in two alien places at once: the remote […]

Interview with American poet Diane Kendig by Kristin Dimitrova You have taught creative writing to university students, children, prisoners, as well as to groups of people who have nothing in common except their interest in literature. What is the difference between them in class? What is common between them in class? Where did you get […]

Velina Vateva’s interview with Digital Angel What does “to create” mean to you? Do you think the word tremendously changes its meaning because of the new techniques? “To create” means to make something out of nothing. I don’t think that words should change their meaning. New techniques are not dangerous for real music or – […]

Velina Veteva presents Veronika Harcsa Music makes me as open as I can be. Since I’m on stage I’ve become much more open in my personal life. I’ve learned that only honest things work. If music did not exist, I would be a computer scientist. I almost finished the Technical University, but thanks to music, […]

Tihomir Ignatov’s interview with Hristo Yotzov Mr. Yotzov, tell a little more about yourself. Why you chose the profession of musician? I will try to outline myself in a few sentences. I grew up in a family of classical musicians. Many times before people ask me, how is it possible in this classical environment that […]