As a singer and folk music researcher, Petra Nachtmanova mainly deals with Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East. She has lived in Berlin since 2008, sang as a mezzo-soprano with the Bulgarian vocal ensemble Bulgarian Voices Berlin and Peperuda and founded the Berlin bands Tralalka and OKO, which rearrange traditional Eastern European songs. Her interest in Anatolian music and the Bağlama lute has been developing since 2010. Since then she has represented Austria at the international TRT Türkcevizyon Festival 2014 in Denizli, played at the Azerbaijani TV station ITV in Baku, at the Turkish MetropolFM, on the Avrupa channel, YolTV, Deutsche Welle, on SWR2 MusikGlobal and traveled through Western Europe to concerts in Anatolian communities. She shot an Arte documentary about the Bağlama SAZfilm with the director Stephan Talneau. More about Petra here: http://pnachtmanova.weebly.com/