This week on 'Radio Architecture', Ilana's special guest is Nela Trifkovic.
Nela is a Bosnian-Australian musician and performance maker with 25 years of practice in music and theatre. She studied music composition, piano, voice and performance making at WAAPA, and VCA, where she completed doctoral studies in 2013. Since then, her main project has been as the artistic director, composer, arranger, and singer in the ensemble SARAY Iluminado performing Balkan and Sephardic Jewish folk music and original composition.
Nela and the ensemble have performed extensively nationally at festivals and venues such as The Mona Foma, The Melbourne Recital Centre, Cygnet Folk Festival and FOJAM. In 2019, a trio version of the ensemble made a European Debut at the Folk Music circuit in Italy. She has performed, composed and presented academically in Europe, Asia, Australia and USA.
