ABOUT

Darja Goldberg is a classical trained musician, performer, improviser, composer, and educator who primarily plays the accordion. She studied music theory and accordion, and today focuses on experimental and interdisciplinary projects.

Darja frequently 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 art. She has brought more than 50 works to life, ranging from solo performances to large ensemble projects.

Driven by desire to challenge musical boundaries, Darjablends different genres and traditions to move beyond stylistic prejudices and discover new sonic worlds. She believes that creating something genuinely new requires questioning conventions, breaking established rules, and stepping beyond the musical and cultural backgrounds that often define and limit artistic expression. For her, music is a space where unexpected connections can emerge and where artistic bridges can be built between cultures, disciplines, and audiences. Darjaseeks to reveal the accordions vast potential in contemporary, experimental, improvised, and interdisciplinary contexts.

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

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 exclusively improvised and contemporary music.

Through her work, Darja seeks to expand the expressive possibilities of the accordion and to connect diverse artistic disciplines.  She seeks a direct connection with the audience through sound, vibration, and presence, inviting listeners into a space of unrealized dreams, imagination and collective experience.

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