Rossen Zahariev is a Bulgarian trumpeter, composer and improviser, interested in the consequences of sound, silence, and their interplay. In the beginning he plays self made drums, then studies piano, and then picks up the trumpet. After his classical training, studies jazz in Rotterdam Conservatory and Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he plays in Rakalam Bob Moses’s group, and on the records “Nishoma” and “Universal Folk Song”, alongside Abbey Lincoln, Steve Kuhn, Jimmy Slide, Scott Robinson, John Medeski, Chris Wood and Jacques Schwarz-Bart. Zahariev’s work with improvisation and Instant Composition has opened a path toward honesty of expression. A path he is determined to follow.