Gorna's
arresting live performances have been
seen in many London venues, such as the ICA,
Jazz Cafe, Vortex, Union Chapel, The Spitz,
Ray’s Jazz and Cargo. She performed in Catania,
Sicily (2005), at the London Jazz Festival (2004),
Big Big World Festival (Scotland, 2005) and
Women in Tune Festival
(Wales, 2006).
Jarmila
has also composed for theatre and film,
scoring
the soundtrack to the Brunton Theatre
Company's
production of Bram Stoker's
'Dracula'
('Gorna's gorgeous score' - Scotland
on
Sunday). She contributed to the multi-media
show
'The Singularity' at the Albany theatre as
part
of the 1998 London International Mime
Festival.
She co-composed and performed the
soundtrack
to the documentary 'Hidden Children'
by
Sheldon Lazarus (Sky TV, 2001). She sung
on
the soundtrack of the Italian feature film
'Luna
Rossa', 2001.
Both
BBC, Polish, Spanish and Macedonian
Radio
as well as TV have featured her work and
interviewed
her.
In
2004, she has been chosen for nomination in
the
category of 'newcomer' by the BBC Radio 3
World
Music Awards.
As
an educator, she has been a guest lecturer
on
the subject of extended vocal techniques at
Cambridge
University. She has been working
as
a private tutor in piano, voice, guitar,
darbouka,
composition and arrangement within
the
Torah-observant Jewish community of
North
London, Stamford Hill. She developed a
unique
and highly successful method of teaching
music
without the use of notation, which focuses
on
the creative empowerment of her students.
('She
calls herself a "music facilitator" - giving
the
girls the magic key to enter the world of
music
making, which they can then develop
themselves
and become their own musical
decision
makers' - Jewish Tribune). In 2006
and
2007 she produced two very popular shows
-
'The Musical Malachim', featuring an ensemble
of
her students ('...a delight to experience' -
JewishTribune).