ARTISTS
EVA LINDAL violin
Swedish violinist Eva Lindal is a performer of contemporary and improvised music, as well as a highly regarded Baroque musician. She was a member of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1986 through 1998. During her years with the Orchestra, Eva established associations with the band Katzen Kapell and the contemporary group MA, connections that continue to this day.
Since 1998, Eva’s main focus has been working with smaller groups, often in collaboration with dancers, poets, actors, and visual artists.
In 2014, Eva produced a traveling concert, Catastrophe in the Jungle, based on the music of her grandfather, the Greek composer Nikos Skalkottas. The show, which mixes Skalkottas’ modernism with Greek folk music and texts from his letters, was created especially for younger audiences and their families. Catastrophe in the Jungle was performed at schools throughout Sweden from 2014 through 2017.
Eva and her sister, violinist Anna Lindal, released the internationally acclaimed duo recording Bäver in the spring of 2020.
Eva is an honorary member of FST (Swedish Society of Composers). The Hidden Music of Sofia G. is her first release on the Sharakan label.
VIRG DZURINKO piano
Virg Dzurinko is an improvising pianist. Equally at home with jazz standards and free improv, she has been playing for years in and around New York City, with a few side trips to New Mexico and Europe.
In addition to her only solo CD, Fun City, Virg and trumpeter Ryan Messina have released two albums to date, Undertow and This Time, as part of an ongoing duo project. Virg is a member of the avant-garde jazz collective Jump Off This Bridge, which is scheduled to perform at the Kaleidophon Festival in Ulrichsberg, Austria, in the spring of 2022. She is the director of the Winter Solstice Players, a New York ensemble that performs a concert in total darkness each year on December 21st. She also manages the musician-run label New Artists Records.
The Hidden Music of Sofia G. is Virg’s first release on the Sharakan label.