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 renowned artists and ensembles. She is the founder and curator of the DARA String Festival and the touring DARA Strings, 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 and Villa Aurora / Los Angeles, the Composition Stipend from the Berliner Senate, and multiple awards and grants. She has releases onthe labels Unsounds, Another Timbre, Elsewhere, Relative Pitch Records, Confront Recordings, Underflow Records, Inexhaustible Editions and Cafe Oto’s Takuroku.

“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.”