Veronika Tabakova & Yana Melamed (Bulgaria)

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Veronika Tabakova graduated in Sound Engineering, Sound and Media Design at the Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music (2016) and Music Technology, Piano at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (2018). Her professional biography includes work as a Sound Engineer at the Bulgarian National Radio, the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the Plovdiv Drama Theatre, and since 2020 she has been a Sound Engineer at the Sofia Opera and Ballet. 

As part of the Combino Project she has participated in the Beglika and Wake Up festivals, and in 2019 the interactive sound installation SOULT - in the Water Festival, Night of Museums and Galleries in Plovdiv and DA Fest, Sofia. In 2018, she directed, produced and sound designed the interactive sound performance Forest Labyrinth. Veronika has won numerous awards at national and international piano competitions, as well as awards for sound recording, editing and mixing.

Yana Melamed holds a BA in Scene Design from the National Academy of Art, Sofia (2015) and an MA in Design of Original Visual Performance from Toneel Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2015). She has designed the set and costumes for theatre productions such as "Before the Beginning, Was There an End?", Sfumato, 2013 and "The Shepherd's Chameleon", NATFA, 2014.She has been artistic director of the Beglika Festival 2009-2014 and has created installations for private clients.