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EUGENIA GEORGIEVA - the artistic director of the trio, started piano lessons at the age of 5, studied at a music school in USSR and won a gold medal in 1984 in Russian festival "Alyosha" (Stary Oskol), in the children's category. She has sung in various choirs in USSR and Bulgaria. In 1996 she started her own rock band "Lady Jane", which played on Bulgarian national radio Horizont and was invited to participate in the European Cultural Month - Plovdiv, 1999.Since 2003 working on several house/dance projects as a singer/songwriter (also check www.myspace.com/eugenieg).Currently a lead singer with Klezmer/ Balkan outfit Max Pashm Band. Former member of London Bulgarian Choir, voted BBC3 Choir of the Year 2006 in the Open category.Session work for the BBC drama soundtrack "The Virgin Queen", backing vocals for the band"Julia" (with drummer Dave Rowntree - ex-BLUR) and Tonci Huljic (BOND), live sessions for BBC3 etc.
DESSISLAVA VASILEVA is a talented young singer who studied under Bulgarian folk legend Kalinka Zgurova and is currently a student at the Academy of Music and Dance (AMTI) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She has sung with the Academic choir of AMTI as well as with Trakia Ensemble, part of world-famous Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares.
Serbian-born JASMINA STOSIC recently graduated from The Guildfrod School of Acting Conservatoire. Professional Theatre Credits include: Sweeney Todd at The Royal Festival Hall alongside Bryn Terfel and Maria Friedman, Jenufa at The Arcola Theatre, The Wiz at The Bloomsbury Theatre; the leading role in The Dybbuk at The King’s Head Theatre for which she received rave reviews. In 2002 she recorded James Sherman and Sam Babenia (composers of Elysium- Charlotte Church) three tracks for a concept album.
Former members include co-founder Victoria Mancheva and Victoria Evstatieva.
Influences
Trio Bulgarka, Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, Nadka Karadjova
Sounds Like
Age-old Bulgarian traditional singing with a modern twist
DISCOGRAPHY Introducing Perunika Trio, Never Mind The Balkans - Here's Max Pashm
Once upon a time, when Slavic tribes were not yet Christian, there was a mighty pagan god of thunder, Perun. He lived in Pirin mountain with his beloved young bride Perunika. To celebrate her stunning loveliness, the Slavs named after her the enigmatic iris - perunika...
The tender stalk of PERUNIKA appeared in October 2005 as a duet, later blossoming into a trio. What brought the three singers together was their love and fascination by the dramatic beauty of Bulgarian folk music, where pagan past, church slavonic tradition and five centuries of Ottoman rule fuse. PERUNIKA are also performing Russian and Macedonian songs, taking you to an exciting journey into Slavic spirituality...
"The Perunika Trio show that you don’t have to be a vast choir to create that haunting, keening sound. Their pure voices interweave in an extraordinary range of vocal effects, and while the members are all cosmopolitan urbanites long resident in Britain, you’d never guess it from the easy way they pitch into these songs of the Bulgarian forests and plains.
Rustic, without being overly romantic,(...) combining a madrigal-like delicacy with a brooding Eastern Orthodox spirituality." Mark Hudson, The Daily Telegraph, 15th March 2008
"There was a time when Bulgarian voices were a mystery to all but the most devoted world music listeners. The London-based Perunika Trio cannot quite recapture the shock of the first Bulgarian recordings to be heard in the west, but their collection of songs still contains surprises (...) mathematically strange harmonies and lurching rhythms abound, as do spurned maidens, wounded warriors and trees."David Honigmann, Financial Times, 1st March 2008 I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)
i love you girls, i cant believe i bumped into you sweet girls at the small world stage at the big chill i hope your journey back to london was safe me and my sisters and my mother really love all the songs on the demo you gave to me. you have have alot of power in your voices and i know power when i hear it, i can see a lot of connection to the nature realm through your sound im glad to have met you lots and lots of Elven Love Jerome
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