Biliana Voutchkova, violin/voice
Biliana Voutchkova is a dynamic, thoroughly engaged interdisciplinary artist, violinist, composer-performer, improvisor and curator with highly individual, unconventional artistic language. Through the prism of listening, her early training in classical music and the years of development as contemporary artist-performer, she explores states of spontaneity and intuitive resonance embodied in her multifaceted activities. Her work spans the widest possible range of sound, vision, movement and includes concert performances of improvisation, contemporary composition and original site specific work, exhibitions, long durational / multidisciplinary performances, audiovisual works and installation formats with focus on the interconnection between inner world and sound space.
Biliana works internationally as a soloist and in collaboration with many renowned artists and ensembles (the Splitter and Trickster Orchestras and Ensemble Modern among others). She is the founder and curator of the DARA String Festival, faculty at the Academy of Arts Bern/HKB Bern, SHAPE+ Platform artist for 2022/2023,
co-founder and member of Voutchkova/ Thieke duo, Jane in Ether and the Land Stages Collective, and a recent recipient of the Berlin Residency Stipend at Cité des Arts / Paris, Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, the Composition Stipend from the Berliner Senate, grands from INM/Berlin, Musikfonds, the National Culture Fund/Bulgaria and the Trust for Mutual Understanding/New York.
Biliana Voutchkova is a dynamic, thoroughly engaged interdisciplinary artist, violinist, composer-performer, improvisor and curator with highly individual, unconventional artistic language. Through the prism of listening, her early training in classical music and the years of development as contemporary artist-performer, she explores states of spontaneity and intuitive resonance embodied in her multifaceted activities. Her work spans the widest possible range of sound, vision, movement and includes concert performances of improvisation, contemporary composition and original site specific work, exhibitions, long durational / multidisciplinary performances, audiovisual works and installation formats with focus on the interconnection between inner world and sound space.
Biliana works internationally as a soloist and in collaboration with many renowned artists and ensembles (the Splitter and Trickster Orchestras and Ensemble Modern among others). She is the founder and curator of the DARA String Festival, faculty at the Academy of Arts Bern/HKB Bern, SHAPE+ Platform artist for 2022/2023,
co-founder and member of Voutchkova/ Thieke duo, Jane in Ether and the Land Stages Collective, and a recent recipient of the Berlin Residency Stipend at Cité des Arts / Paris, Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, the Composition Stipend from the Berliner Senate, grands from INM/Berlin, Musikfonds, the National Culture Fund/Bulgaria and the Trust for Mutual Understanding/New York.