Biliana Voutchkova
Violine, Stimme
1. März 2026
Konzert: 19 Uhr
Voranmeldung unter info@veto-records.ch empfohlen
und im Anschluss gibt es Suppe für alle.
Eintritt Fr. 20.– / 10.–
Konzert: 19 Uhr
Voranmeldung unter info@veto-records.ch empfohlen
und im Anschluss gibt es Suppe für alle.
Eintritt Fr. 20.– / 10.–
Biliana Voutchkova ist eine engagierte interdisziplinäre Künstlerin, Geigerin, Komponistin, Performerin, Improvisatorin und Kuratorin, die international als Solistin und in Zusammenarbeit mit renommierten Künstler:innen arbeitet. Sie ist Dozentin an der Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB) und Gründerin und Kuratorin des DARA String Festivals. Durch das Prisma des Zuhörens erforscht sie Zustände der Spontaneität und der intuitiven Resonanz, die in ihren vielfältigen Aktivitäten zum Ausdruck kommen. Dazu gehören Konzertperformances mit Improvisation, zeitgenössischer Komposition und Original- bzw. ortsspezifischen Arbeiten, Ausstellungen, Long Durational und multidisziplinäre Performances, audiovisuelle Arbeiten und Installationsformate mit Fokus auf die Verbindung zwischen Innenwelt und Klangraum.
www.bilianavoutchkova.net
(longer english)
Biliana Voutchkova is a dynamic, thoroughly engaged composer-performer, violinist, interdisciplinary artist, improvisor and curator with highly individual, unconventional artistic language. Through the prism of listening, her early education 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 a wide 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, Ensemble Modern, her groups Jane in Ether, Voutchkova/Thieke duo and the L a n d S t a g e s Collective 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, recipient of the Berlin Residency Stipend at Cité des Arts / Paris ans Villa Aurora / Los Angeles, the Composition Stipend from the Berliner Senate, and multiple grants (Musikfonds, Hauptstadtkulturfonds, (INM/Berlin, the National Culture Fund/Bulgaria, the Trust for Mutual Understanding/New York etc.)
She has releases on the labels Unsounds, Another Timbre, Elsewhere, Relative Pitch Records, Confront Recordings, Inexhaustible Editions and Cafe Oto’s Takuroku.
Born in the family of musicians, Biliana began playing violin at the age of 4, made her orchestra debut at the age of 9, and recorded her first CD for the Japanese label Crown Record Ltd. at the age of 16. By the age of 18, she started realising classical music wasn’t her path. In search for artistic growth, Biliana moved to Los Angeles to further study and discover music. This was followed by a period on the East Coast of the US (New York and Boston), where she engaged with contemporary/experimental music and improvisation, fulfilled her Master's Degree, broke from standard classical convention and began to understand something of her calling.
In 2008 Biliana moved to Berlin where she pursued further the development of her artistic vocabulary, incorporating the voice and performance/movement, creating a unique quality as a composer-performer. Most recently, Biliana has been drawn into the visual world as a different medium for creative input. She continuously follows her intuitive path that organically reveals itself.
“I am now mostly interested in creating new work, collaborative or solo, composed or improvised, acoustic, electro-acoustic, audio-visual or multidisciplinary, always allowing space for spontaneity and response to the current moment and place. I connect to intuition and the knowledge locked within us, searching for the circumstances that enable them to arise to the surface. Through sound and deep listening, I engage with the ephemeral, transient and dreamworld through various kinds of verbal and non-verbal communication, tracing the connectivity between people, places, and all of life, allowing the occurrence of touching and meaningful experiences.”
www.bilianavoutchkova.net
www.bilianavoutchkova.net
(longer english)
Biliana Voutchkova is a dynamic, thoroughly engaged composer-performer, violinist, interdisciplinary artist, improvisor and curator with highly individual, unconventional artistic language. Through the prism of listening, her early education 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 a wide 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, Ensemble Modern, her groups Jane in Ether, Voutchkova/Thieke duo and the L a n d S t a g e s Collective 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, recipient of the Berlin Residency Stipend at Cité des Arts / Paris ans Villa Aurora / Los Angeles, the Composition Stipend from the Berliner Senate, and multiple grants (Musikfonds, Hauptstadtkulturfonds, (INM/Berlin, the National Culture Fund/Bulgaria, the Trust for Mutual Understanding/New York etc.)
She has releases on the labels Unsounds, Another Timbre, Elsewhere, Relative Pitch Records, Confront Recordings, Inexhaustible Editions and Cafe Oto’s Takuroku.
Born in the family of musicians, Biliana began playing violin at the age of 4, made her orchestra debut at the age of 9, and recorded her first CD for the Japanese label Crown Record Ltd. at the age of 16. By the age of 18, she started realising classical music wasn’t her path. In search for artistic growth, Biliana moved to Los Angeles to further study and discover music. This was followed by a period on the East Coast of the US (New York and Boston), where she engaged with contemporary/experimental music and improvisation, fulfilled her Master's Degree, broke from standard classical convention and began to understand something of her calling.
In 2008 Biliana moved to Berlin where she pursued further the development of her artistic vocabulary, incorporating the voice and performance/movement, creating a unique quality as a composer-performer. Most recently, Biliana has been drawn into the visual world as a different medium for creative input. She continuously follows her intuitive path that organically reveals itself.
“I am now mostly interested in creating new work, collaborative or solo, composed or improvised, acoustic, electro-acoustic, audio-visual or multidisciplinary, always allowing space for spontaneity and response to the current moment and place. I connect to intuition and the knowledge locked within us, searching for the circumstances that enable them to arise to the surface. Through sound and deep listening, I engage with the ephemeral, transient and dreamworld through various kinds of verbal and non-verbal communication, tracing the connectivity between people, places, and all of life, allowing the occurrence of touching and meaningful experiences.”
www.bilianavoutchkova.net
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