Tatiana Sarbinska

Tatiana Sarbinska is known as the Voice of Pirin in her native country, Bulgaria. For more than forty years she has worked as a singer, director, teacher, and composer in both the United States and in her native country of Bulgaria. Ms. Sarbinska grew up learning traditional Bulgarian music in the Macedonian village of Rila, near the Pirin Mountains in southwestern Bulgaria. As a student at Academy of Music, Dance and Fine Arts in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, she received degrees in traditional folk music (singing, conducting, composition) and classical and applied musical pedagogy.

For many years she was the featured soloist of the internationally-acclaimed Pirin Ensemble, as well as a conductor, and toured extensively in Bulgaria, Austria, Switzerland, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, China, Vietnam, Iraq, Tunis, Morocco, Syria, Egypt, Soviet Union, United States, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Romania, Australia and Iran. Since emigrating to the United States, she has performed throughout the country, including at the Kennedy Center and the Library of Congress.