Since 2010 OPEN SOURCE TRIO has been continuously touring all over Europe. You could very well say, that they are modernizing the standard setup of the jazz trio. As their name suggests, the band’s compositions combine various styles like jazz, classical, electronica and a touch of Bulgarian folklore.

In the beginning of 2014 Open Source Trio released their debut album ”Mirage”, which was very well received and featured on Radio6 (NL), allaboutjazz.com, the Bulgarian National Radio, Radio Romania Cultural, Nova TV, bTV and Radio Darik. Their music was used as a soundtrack for the documentary “Movers and Shakers of Contemporary Art“. In 2015 the band had appearances at numerous festivals all over Europe, played together with the “Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra“ and was selected for the “EBU – European Jazz Contest“ in Rotterdam.

The second album of the trio is called “Altitude”. In many ways, the title reflects the shared experiences the band had during the last years. Drummer Juri Schewe explains: “Altitude stands for the great heights in the mountains, that we wondered through so often – be it in the Rila mountains or the Alps. These heights we also reached in the most intense moments on stage. On the one hand you feel free, insecure and elevated like everything’s possible, on the other hand you are grounded and you seem to be frozen in time.“

The band members have known each other since 2010, while pianist Momchil Atanasoff, drummer Juri Schewe and bassist Ray Janga were studying at the Conservatory in Rotterdam. Since 2016, the band has welcomed Nikos Kalavrytinos as the new bass player. The three of them are virtuous musicians of a young jazz generation for which crossing stylistic borders is very natural. The music of OPEN SOURCE TRIO has been interpreted as thrilling, provocative and complex while managing to create profound emotional echoes in the crowds they reach.