Voutchkova / Kravanja / Canna: SOLO, DUO, TRIO

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SOLO, DUO, TRIO 

Thomas Canna – Perkussion
Ana Kravanja – Violine, Stimme
Biliana Voutchkova – Violine, Stimme

Solo, Duo, Trio brings together three composer-performers. While Biliana works continuously with Ana and Thomas, this evening marks their first encounter together.  Rooted in spontaneity, attentive listening and intuition, the music draws on personal histories, common aesthetics, song traditions from their respective lands, and mutual interest in presence and the emergence of the sound in the moment of each gathering.

Biliana Voutchkova is a deeply engaged composer-performer, violinist, curator and educator with highly individual artistic voice. Her work incorporates expanded and continuously evolving sonic and physical capacities in the field of contemporary music, improvisation, long durational and multidisciplinary performance, with focus on the interconnection between inner world and sound space. Biliana is an active performer, founder and curator of DARA String Festival, a composition faculty member at HKB Bern, and recipient of multiple grants and awards.
www.bilianavoutchkova.net

Thomas Canna is a percussionist and improviser focused on contemporary sound and compositional practices.
His work stems from the idea that every sonic element inherently possesses a frequency capable of interacting with external forces that seek to uncover its essence. At the heart of this research lies the concept of resonance, and he will premiere a study that will be part of his upcoming solo album, currently in preparation. https://www.thomascanna.com/

Ana Kravanja is a member of the music group Širom, where she plays on a multitude of traditional, classic and hand-made musical instruments.She creates original music for theatrical performances, films, animations, narratives, poetry, dance and visual arts. In 2013, she conceived the Glacies project in which musicians play on shelves from refrigerator. Between 2012 and 2016, in the duo Najou with Sam Kutin, she created music for fourteen calinbas and recorded two records. She is one tenth of Olfamoštvo. As an improviser on the violin, she collaborated with numerous Slovene and foreign musicians and dancers: Samo Kutin, Tomaž Grom, Irena Tomažin, Vid & Jošt Drašler, Andrej Fon, Ina Puntar, Tea Vidmar, Tijana Stankovic, Noid, Matija Schellander, Susanna Gartmayer, Aleksandar Škorić, Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, Henrik Olsson, Raphael Roginski, Ryuzo Fukuhara, Lotus Edde Khouri etc. She has co-created several events within projects of the Sploh Institute, such as: in the context of the Confine aperto, Zvokotok and Neforma series, RR public presentation, Sound Disobedience festival and international tour. Her contributions can also be heard on the Sound Disobedience album, released in 2011 by Sploh in co-production with L’innomable. A recording of her solo concerts is a part of the iMstrument collection.