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Bulgarian-born Penka Kouneva nominated for 2022 Grammy award

Photo: courtesy of Penka Kouneva

Penka Kouneva is among the nominations for this year’s Grammy awards for Best Classical Compendium for the album Women Warriors: The Voices of Change, which includes works by the the Bulgarian-born composer. The album is a celebration of global activists fighting for social justice.

Penka Kouneva has been a composer, orchestrator and soundtrack producer for more than 20 years. She has graduated from the Lyubomir Pipkov National Music School in Sofia, and then the National Academy of Music. In 1990, she was awarded the Mary Duke Biddle Graduate Fellowship at Duke University where she studied composition and orchestration. In 1997 Kouneva received a Ph.D. degree in composition, after which she started her Hollywood career as composer.

Penka Kouneva’s most notable works include The Woman Astronaut , A Warrior’s Odyssey, Play for Japan etc. 



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