Viktor Tanaskovski

Viktor Tanaskovski is a musician and music teacher from Skopje. He studied jazz guitar at “Goce Delchev” university in Shtip, where he graduated in 2016. So far he has been a part of many music projects based in Skopje. Apart from playing live gigs and teaching guitar and bass in his home studio, his main project is Minstrel’s Gallery, a Progressive/Art Rock group in which he is doing most of the composing, writing, and visuals. Minstrel’s Gallery was formed in March 2013. Their music is an eclectic combination of a wide variety of genres, such as Heavy Rock, Jazz/Fusion, Psychedelia, World Folk Music, Avant-garde influences, etc… which, blended together with the uncommon time signatures and composing techniques, they briefly call it Progressive/Art Rock. So far they have two albums – “Ignorance leads to Ruin” (2016) and “To…” (2018). Currently, the band is working on new material which is going to be recorded for their third studio album. With Minstrel’s Gallery as a host band, Viktor have organized many events, among which most notable are the Acoustic Breakfast (autumn 2017), Synaesthetics (spring 2018 and 2019, together with Ana Knezhevikj), and Semi-acoustic Breakfast (autumn 2018). The idea behind these events, especially Synaesthetics, was to combine all kinds of arts and crafts on the same place in the same time, such as music, poetry, visual arts, handmade crafts bazaar, cooking, and so on.