Jazz Club В Джаза / Jazz Insights

On 05.09 in the yard of the Jazz Club in Jazz will be Gabriela (vocals), Preslav Peev (saxophone) and Zhivko Bratanov (piano), who will present a unique experience with jazz standards and pop songs in jazz variations.
Zhivko Bratanov is a pianist, composer and teacher at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts - Plovdiv, with published author's albums in Spain and Portugal and participation in international festivals. Next to him stands the young and charismatic saxophonist Preslav Peev from Dobrich - known from "Kerana and the Cosmonauts" and Opera Plovdiv, who has also played with Big Band Plovdiv, Zamunda Banana Band, etc.
The vocal presence is entrusted to Gabriela, who is originally from San Francisco, but currently lives in the city of Plovdiv. She began her musical journey since childhood and completed a music education, which provided her with a solid foundation in classical and contemporary music. She graduated in pop and jazz singing at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Plovdiv and completed her master's degree at the National University of Bulgaria under Prof. Etienne Levy, also known from "The Voice of Bulgaria". The singer is also known for her deeply recognizable and emotional performance in various musical genres, such as jazz, pop and soul.
The three musicians combine different experiences and styles to create an exciting and inspiring jazz experience.

Tickets: 15lv
You can also purchase online via Bilet.bg

Boris Petkov:
He was born in Plovdiv, into a family of hereditary musicians and teachers.
He is a graduate of the music school - NUMTI Dobrin Petkov, from the piano classes of Svetlana Koseva and Elena Velcheva.
In 2024 he graduated from HMTM Hochschuele Fuer Musik Und Theater Muenchen (University of Music and Theater, Munich, Germany) with the specialties of classical piano and music pedagogy.
He is a laureate of dozens of national and international piano competitions, a two-time scholarship holder at festivals such as Musica Mundi (Belgium) and Ticcino Musica (Switzerland). Scholarship holder of Deutschlandstipendium and Yehudi Menuhin Fondation, etc.
He has several published classical compositions, and over the past 3 years he has been mainly involved in jazz, having performed over 220 concerts in Bulgaria with different ensembles and different themes, with a focus on the work of Milcho Leviev, music by Bulgarian jazzmen, jazz standards, original music, jazz arrangements of pop songs and many more different inter-genre collaborations.
He is an arranger of the ethno-jazz group - Jazzboree.
He participates in many, different and new festivals and music workshops in Bulgaria, with the aim of creating a musical community, continuity between generations, cultivating a jazz audience and spreading the art of jazz and improvisation.
Grand-Prix of the first edition of the national competition "Milcho Leviev".
This year he took part in the Bansko Jazz Festival 2025 with his project:
"Classics in Jazz", which included original music, arrangements of classical works, film music by Milcho Leviev and arrangements of jazz standards, which he performed with Vicky Almazidou, Arnau Garofe, Vasil Hadzhigrudev and Stoyan Yankulov-Stundzhi.
Ilin Iliev - Ilinski:
Born in Plovdiv, Ilin Ilinski has been performing on stage since the age of 4. He graduated from secondary and higher education with a degree in guitar. Following his creativity, he performed as a musician combining multiple genres and this path led him to the creation of two original albums. Later, he completed a master's degree in London, where he is currently developing as an active artist in musical circles and a teacher.
Simeon Simeonov:
Simeon Simeonov was born in Plovdiv in 1999. He began his studies in classical percussion instruments when he was nine years old. He studied at the NUMTI “Dobrin Petkov” Plovdiv, and then at the NMU “Lyubomir Pipkov”, Sofia. At the end of his high school period, he turned to drums and jazz stylistics and recorded jazz drums at the NMA “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” Sofia, in the class of Professor Hristo Yotsov. Since 2020, he has been studying jazz drums in the class of Steve Altenberg and Joost van Schaik and is an active participant in master classes by Gregory Hutchinson, Howard Curtis and Joey Barron. He actively performs on the domestic and foreign stages. 
Tickets: 20lv
You can also purchase online via Bilet.bg