Venko Poromanski

Behind the kit at the Ancient Theatre in Plovdiv on 1 September 2009, Venko Poromanski played the concert that opened the Fifth Autumn Salon of Arts: Jon Lord's Concerto for Group and Orchestra and music associated with Deep Purple, with Lord himself at the keyboards, Doogie White, Katarzyna Łaska, Darin Vasilev and Ivaylo Zvezdomirov, and the Plovdiv Philharmonic. Poromanski was born on 5 February 1972 in Nicosia and lived for a time in Germany before taking up percussion at the age of ten and continuing his studies in Bulgaria from 1984. He entered the pop and jazz department of the State Academy of Music in 1993 and graduated in 1998; in 1995 he won the Bulgarian National Radio competition for drummers and joined the BNR Big Band. In the summer of 2000 he was among the four founders of the band Te, and he recorded a concert DVD with Jon Lord of Deep Purple. He has taught at New Bulgarian University since 2003, took a master's degree in sound engineering in 2006, joined the group Fondatsiata in 2013, defended a doctorate in musicology in 2016, and has taught at the National Academy of Music in Sofia since 2017.