Concert MARTIN LUBENOV and JAZZTA PRASTA ORCHESTRA
Location: Amphitheatre Apollonia
Start: 02 September, 21:00 h.
Martin Lubenov - accordion
Krassimir Malakov - clarinet, saxophone
Petar Yankov - vocals, percussion
Stefan Velinov - vocals, percussion
Martin Doykin -double bass
Venzeslav Padev - drums
Milen Kokusharov - piano
Michail Yossifov - trumpet
Velislav Stoyanov - trombone
Vladimir Karparov - tenor saxophone
Martin Lubenov studied classical music and jazz in Sofia and Vienna. His roots in the vibrating ground of balkan wedding music kept him from becoming an "academic" musician. And fortunately his musical education helped him quite soon to outgrow popular music, to which a lot of Roma musicians on the Balkans are confined.
In 2000 Martin Lubenov moved to Vienna in order to study and soon became a link between the music of Yugoslav and Macedonian communities and the Central-European folk and world music scene. Fast his talent got around and numerous musicians and bands invited him to collaborate, like for example the Sandy Lopičić Orkestar. In addition to this, he has been instrumentalist and arranger for the Jony Iliev Band in Bulgaria. 2005 Jazzta Prasta won the Austrian World Music Award, and in 2006 Martin Lubenov was awarded the prestigious French Prix Gus Viseur, category Jazz/World. In 2008 he realized joint projects together with renowned Austrian jazz saxophonist Wolfgang Puschnig and some renowned musicians of the international accordion scene: Richard Galliano (France), Renato Borghetti (Brazil), Danças Ocultas (Portugal). The documentary Jazzta Prasta on his life and career (Camera Film, Sofia) was officially released at the Sofia International Film Festival in March 2009.
