TATIANA SARBINSKA has worked as a musician, director, teacher, and composer in both the United States and in her native Bulgaria for more than forty years. 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. Since emigrating to the United States, she has performed and taught throughout the country, and has been a consultant for Revels, the renowned international music company. www.tatianasarbinska.com