Artists

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Sarah Akif studied the horn with Prof. Boštjan Lipovšek at the Ljubljana Academy of Music, after which she furthered her studies with international horn players such as Radovan Vlatković, Radek Baborak and Sarah Willis, as well as studying at the Frankfurt Un...

Tilen Artač is a cellist, comedian, impersonator and satirist. He received his master’s degree from the Zagreb Academy of Music under Prof. Valter Dešpalj and then continued his music education at the Graz University of Music and Performing Arts with Pro...

Aljaž Beguš began his musical career at the Ljubljana Moste-Polje School of Music with professors Jože Kregar and Franc Tržan. At the age of thirteen, he was accepted to the Ljubljana Music and Ballet Secondary School and later entered the Ljubljana Aca...

Georg Breinschmid is an outstanding expert on the double bass in a range of styles and one of the most surprising contemporary composers and lyricists.

Aleksander Čonč graduated from the Maribor Music and Ballet Secondary School, where he studied the clarinet.

Composer and pianist Leon Firšt received his master’s degree in composition from the Ljubljana Academy of Music, where he studied with Prof. Dušan Bavdek.

Thomas Gansch was born in St Pölten and grew up in Melk an der Donau, where he learnt the trumpet from his father Johann Gansch. At the age of 15, he went to Vienna to study the trumpet at the University of Music and Performing Arts.

Mairéad Hickey, a celebrated Irish violinist, is acclaimed for her captivating expression, soaring tone and fearless virtuosity.

Cellist Vashti Hunter is currently based in Berlin, where she enjoys a versatile career as a soloist and chamber musician.

Jelena Jakovljević is from the Serbian city of Niš, where she completed her secondary music school education.

Boško Jović received his primary and secondary musical education in Zenica. He then moved to Sarajevo, where he graduated from the Sarajevo Academy of Music, first in ethnomusicology (2004), and then in guitar (2006).

Jonian Ilias Kadesha is a committed chamber musician, collaborating with renowned musicians such as Martha Argerich, Steven Isserlis, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Nicolas Altstaedt and Antje Weithaas.

As a soloist and member of various chamber ensembles, she is the recipient of numerous top prizes at national and international competitions.

He has established himself as one of the leading artists of his generation, or as The Guardian has stated, “an artist of innate musicality with a technical execution that belongs only to the greatest”.

Within the programme of the society Hiša! Rajzefiber, Vid Kmetič serves as the programme director of the Festival of Walks and the Young Festival of Walks, and he is also responsible for the development and preparation of new tourism products.

A master of both violin and viola, Hungarian Katalin Kokas garnered numerous important prizes already in her youth, quickly embarking on a successful concert career both as a soloist and a chamber musician.

He started his musical journey at the age of five with the diatonic accordion. He then attended piano lessons at the Celje School of Music and experienced playing in an orchestra for the first time as a member of the tamboura orchestra Petrovi Tamburaši. ...

The Kelemen Quartet was founded in 2010 by Barnabás Kelemen, Katalin Kokas, cellist Dóra Kokas and violinist Gábor Homoki. They achieved notable success from the very beginning, winning several prestigious international chamber music competitions and ga...

Klemen Leben is an accordionist, composer, improviser, pedagogue and researcher who believes in the communicativeness of contemporary music.

Pianist and music pedagogue (full professor) from Maribor who, in addition to giving concerts and teaching at the Maribor Faculty of Education, devotes special attention to bringing classical music to the young audience.

Urban Marinko has been a regular member of the Orchestra of the Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet Ljubljana since January 2022. Before that, he played in the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg for two years, first as tutti player and then as the deputy...

With bold and fresh interpretations, they break the boundaries of the familiar and convey the listener to unknown territory, as their activities are based on the belief that music carries within itself the possibility of understanding without words.

Violinist Mojca Menoni Sikur graduated from the Ljubljana Academy of Music in the class of Dejan Bravničar and in 2003 successfully completed her specialist postgraduate studies with Vasilij Meljnikov at the same institution.

Mihael Mitev has been the principal bassoonist of the Orchestra of the Slovene National Theatre Maribor since 2019.

She is a recipient of the Škerjanc Award of the Ljubljana Conservatory of Music and Ballet and the Student Prešeren Prize of the Ljubljana Academy of Music, an award that she also received as a member of the Accadémia String Quartet

Leonhard Paul se je rodil na Dunaju, kjer je študiral instrumentalno pedagogiko in koncertno pozavno na tamkajšnji Univerzi za glasbo.

The Maribor Post Brass Orchestra was founded in 1931 and today is an eighty member orchestra of the highest quality.

Nina Pirc started learning the violin at the Krško Music School, then continued her education at the Velenje Music Secondary School with Igor Ulokin and at the Ljubljana Music and Ballet Secondary School with Jernej Brence. In 2011, she graduated from ...

Ivan Vanja Radoja was born in Sarajevo, where he completed his classical music education. After finishing his studies, he served as a member of the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra for several years.

Gregor Ravnik has established himself as one of the most versatile and promising trained solo singers in the region, specialising in popular and operatic music.

Lajos Sárközy Jr was born in Budapest in a family of musicians and started playing the violin when he was just three years old. His first teacher was his father, who is also a violinist.

The brass quintet SiBRASS was founded in 2011 on the initiative of members of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra.

Martin Sikur studied the cello with Ciril Škerjanec at the Ljubljana Academy of Music and with Enrico Bronzi and Giovanni Gnocchi at the Fondazione Musicale Santa Cecilia in Portogruaro, Italy.

The Symphony Orchestra of the Slovene National Theatre Maribor is one of the leading ensembles in the region and has a relatively long performing tradition.

Matjaž Skaza began his musical journey by studying percussion with Avgust Skaza at the Slovenske Konjice Music School.

Mustafa Šantić was born in Mostar, where he completed primary and secondary music school. He graduated as a clarinettist from the Sarajevo Academy of Music and music has always had a central place in his life.

Monika Trilar Babič has been the principal oboist of the Orchestra of the Slovene National Theatre Maribor since 2018.

Janez Usenik developed a serious interest in journalism, the performing arts and the media while studying at the Ljubljana Faculty of Law and continued his professional career in these fields after abandoning his studies.

Albert Wieder received his first tuba lessons from his father and later studied with Prof. Josef Maierhofer at the Graz University of Music and Performing Arts.