ABOUT

Darja Goldberg is a musician, performer, improvisor, composer, and educator who primarily plays the accordion. She studied music theory and accordion, and today focuses on experimental and interdisciplinary projects. Her work includes giving lectures on improvised music as well as on “accordion for composers.”

Her musical journey has taken her across Europe—including Finland, Estonia, Poland, Spain, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands—as well as further afield to India, China, England, Ireland, and Serbia.

Some highlights include interdisciplinary collaborations such as draum’ea (2025), mundane.magic (2024), Linea Materna (2025), the 120th Birthday of Georg Elser (2023), the Heppenheimer Festspiele (2022), and performances at festivals including 2k+ Antifestival, ContemPlay, Zeitströme, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Soundplasma Festival, AfektFestival, among others.

Darja regularly collaborates with musicians, composers, and artists from a wide range of backgrounds—bridging contemporary music and folk traditions, theater and dance, as well as multimedia and audiovisual art. She works closely with composers on new creations for the accordion, actively contributing to the development of contemporary repertoire, which brought more than 50 pieces into life, from solo to large ensemble. Her music has also been featured on international radio stations, reaching audiences far beyond the concert hall.
In 2025 she formed with Marina Karpova (modular synthesizers) and David-Ovid Komlev (accordion) the trio Electro.Funeral where  music interwaves the sound of two accordions and analog synthesizers in a lament and joy beyond words. In the same year she became a member of European Music Collective (EMC), a union of musicians from all over Europe, focused on esclusively improvised and contemporary music.

Through her work, Darja seeks to expand the expressive possibilities of the accordion and to connect diverse artistic disciplines.  She wants to offer people an unforgettable experience through her music, to make the audience forget everything, leave their sorrows and troubles behind. Fleeting moments of harmony - a moment of pure joy where time stands still, and the world fades away.

This can happen through new interdisciplinary projects, cooperation with other artists and doing everything possible that others say is not.