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.
An important premiere and exciting debut are expected on June 19 in Sofia's Bulgaria Concert Hall. Latvian accordionist Ksenija Sidorova - one of the most attractive ladies on the contemporary classical scene, will make her debut with the National..
Stefan Valdobrev and The Usual Suspects released another single from their album ''Udivitelni Vaprositelni'' . In line with the album’s title, Stefan keeps asking questions—starting right from the song's name: “Did You Drink Vinegar or Eat a Lemon”..
In the 1920s, the very young Bulgarian composer Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin was called by music critics in Vienna "the Bulgarian Schubert". The talented artist is known for chamber works such as Piano Trio, Pastoral for flute and piano, and the..
Just over a month after they started releasing their albums on vinyl with "Only for You", Mary Boys Band now welcomes "Long Way Home" also on vinyl. The..
The impressive body of work that the great composer Dimitar Valchev created for the Bulgarian stage, film, television and popular music has long been..
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