Esin Yardimli Alves Pereira

Esin Yardimli Alves Pereira is dedicated to various platforms of independent artistry and musicianship. She performs, composes and produces in styles that expand from early music to heavy metal. She plays most instruments that at least resemble a violin and some more. She is a researcher of medieval culture and writes historical articles for sharing her passion for things worth seeing under a different light, and fiction works as a practice of escapism. Her translations of medieval Iberian poetry to English is part of a book in the making. She is the co-founder and the vielle player of the early music formation The Wandering Bard that brings together mythological storytelling and historically informed performances of renaissance and medieval music. Esin is the producer to all things CordaSonora. She also sound engineers, directs and designs. Her music is enjoyed by +40K monthly listeners. Her solo albums and other collaborations can be found on all major music streaming platforms under her name. Her latest release KIANIS: Homage to Carmilla, a violin-heavy metal extravaganza is a statement of her striking imagination and stylistic richness. She is the co-director of the Portugal based medieval music festivals CMML and DMMB.