Bio
Lily Storm is a singer specializing in traditional music, with particular experience in Eastern European styles. She has studied with many traditional singers
(Donka Koleva,
Kremena Stancheva,
Merita Halili,
Mariana Sadovska,
Christos Govetas,
Carl Linich,
Tsvetanka Varimezova,
Radostina Kaneva, Tatiana Sarbinska), and has traveled extensively, living for some months in Hungary and Greece and visiting Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Montenegro, Croatia and India. She also makes use of archival recordings to study ancient styles preserved into the early 20th
century.
Lily performs with several ensembles in the Bay Area, working with musicians including Ryan Francesconi, Dan Cantrell, Aya Davidson, Beth Bahia Cohen, Eric Perney, Peter Maund, Shea Comfort, Leslie Bonnett, Dan Ziagos, Bill Lanphier, Bryan Bowman, and Lucia Comnes. She also performs early music with Shira Kammen, Tim Rayborn, and Kit Higginson; Scandinavian folk music with the Swedish duo Dråm, and she has collaborated with Kane Mathis, an accomplished kora and oud player. Highlights of the last year include singing with the Toids to open for Joanna Newsom, and performing in Greece with Lucia Comnes at the Voices of Stone (Φωνές της Πέτρας) Festival, sharing the stage with Petro-Loukas Halkias and Domna Samiou, among others.
Previously she sang with the Bay Area vocal ensemble Kitka for 5 years. As part of Kitka, she recorded as a soloist (The Vine, Wintersongs), collaborated in concert with ensembles including Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Ziyia, Ensemble Alcatraz, Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir, Davka, and Mariana Sadovska, and appeared on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion and then-NPR's Performance Today.
Discography
Lucia Comnes and Lily Storm, Violets and Roses
Trio Mopmu, Torta Bulgarska (Odd-Shaped Case)
Kitka, Wintersongs (Diaphonica)
Kitka, The Vine (Diaphonica)
Kitka and Ensemble Alcatraz, Cantigas de Amigo (Dorian)
Kitka and Davka, Old and New World Jewish Music (Forest Creatures Productions)
The Toids, Unblocked Ears (Odd Shaped Case)
RF, Falls (Odd Shaped Case)
Slaveja, self-titled album of the Bryn Mawr College folk choir