Mariana Markhel

Mariana Markhel – comes from Kiev, violinist, traditional singer and singing coach. Graduate of the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music (violin department) and member of the Academy’s orchestra. She participated in numerous ethnomusicological field research projects. She has been singing traditional songs from a very early age, taught by her mother, a renown Kiev ethnomusicologist Iryna Klymenko. She performed with the famous Ukrainian group Drewo and with the group Hurtoprawci, with whom she toured in Canada, Switzerland, and Latvia. She currently sings in the group Babskij kozaczok.
Fot. Marcin Bałaban | EtnoKraków/Rozstaje 2023