Artists at the Maribor Festival
Sarah Akif
Horn player Sarah Akif studied the horn under the tutelage of Rev. prof. Boštjana Lipovška at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, after which she received additional training from international horn players such as Radovan Vlatković, Radek Baborak and Sarah Willis, and at the University...
Tilen Artač
Tilen Artač is a cellist, comedian, impersonator and satirist. He received his master's degree at the Academy of Music in Zagreb under Professor Valter Dešpalj. He continued his musical education at the Academy of Music in Graz with Professor Rudolf Leopold, chamber voice...
Aljaž Beguš
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 Secondary School of Music and Ballet and later to the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, where he graduated...
Georg Breinschmidt
Georg Breinschmid is an outstanding double bass specialist who moves between all styles and one of the most surprising contemporary composers and poets.
Aleksander Čonč
Aleksander Čonč graduated from the Maribor High School of Music and Ballet, majoring in clarinet.
Leon Firšt
Composer and pianist Leon Firšt is with prof. Dušan Bavdek received his master's degree in composition at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana.
Thomas Gansch
Thomas Gansch was born in St. Pölten and grew up in Melk on the Danube, where he learned to play the trumpet from his father, Johann Gansch. At the age of fifteen, he went to Vienna, where he studied trumpet at the University of Music and Performing Arts....
Mairéad Hickey
Mairéad Hickey, an acclaimed Irish violinist, is admired for her captivating expressiveness, penetrating tone and fearless virtuosity.
Vashti Hunter
Cellist Vashti Hunter currently works in Berlin as a soloist and chamber musician. She is the first British woman to win a prize at the Prague Spring International Cello Competition.
Jelena Jakovljević
Jelena Jakovljević comes from Niš, where she finished secondary music school, and then continued her education at the Faculty of Musical Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade, where she graduated in flute in 2007 and received an award from the Jako...
Bosko Jovic
Boško Jović received his primary and secondary musical education in Zenica, then moved to Sarajevo, where he graduated from the Sarajevo Academy of Music, first in ethnomusicology (2004), and then in guitar (2006), from which he graduated in 2010 here...
Ionian Ilias Kadesh
Jonian Ilias Kadesha is a committed chamber musician who collaborates with renowned musicians such as Martha Argerich, Steven Isserlis, Patricija Kopačinskaja, Nicolas Altstaedt and Antje Weithaas.
Irena Kavčič
As a soloist and member of various chamber ensembles, she is the winner of numerous top prizes at national and international competitions.
Barnabas Kelemen
He has established himself as one of the leading artists of his generation and as an artist with an innate musicality and technical performance that belongs only to the greatest, as noted in the Guardian.
Vid Kmetic
An excellent connoisseur of the city's stories and program editor of the Festival of Walks and the Young Festival of Walks at the association Hiša!
Katalin Kokas
Hungarian Katalin Kokas is a master of both violin and viola. At an early age, she won many important awards and began a successful concert career, in which, in addition to solo performances, chamber music and collaboration with her mother's string orchestra play a central role...
John Krevel
He began his musical journey at the age of five with the diatonic accordion, then attended piano lessons at the Celje Music School and experienced playing in an orchestra for the first time as a member of Peter's tambourines.
Kelemen Quartet
The quartet was founded in 2010 by Barnabás Kelemen, Katalin Kokas, cellist Dóra Kokas and violinist Gábor Homoki. From the very beginning, they achieved great success, winning several famous international chamber music competitions and gaining a wide international...
Klemen Leben
Klemen Leben is an accordionist, composer, improviser, pedagogue and researcher who believes in the message of contemporary music.
Adriana Magdovski
Pianist and music pedagogue (full professor) from Maribor who, in addition to giving concerts and teaching at the Faculty of Education in Maribor, devotes special attention to bringing classical music to a young audience.
Urban Marinko
Urban Marinko has been a regular member of the SNG Opera and Ballet Ljubljana orchestra since January 2022. Before that, he played in the Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg for two years, first as tutist and then as deputy cello leader.
MB gang
With bold and fresh interpretations, they break the boundaries of what has been heard many times and take the listener into unknown waters, as they are based on the belief that music carries within itself the possibility of understanding without words.
Mojca Menoni Sikur
Violinist Mojca Menoni Sikur graduated from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana in the class of Dejan Bravničar. In 2003, she successfully completed her specialist postgraduate studies there with Vasilij Meljnikov.
Gea Pantner Wolfand
Winner of the Škerjanev Award of the Ljubljana Conservatory of Music and Ballet and the Prešern Award of the Academy of Music. As a member of the string quartet Accadémia, she also received the Prešeren Prize of the Academy of Music.
Leonard Paul
Leonhard Paul was born in Vienna, where he studied instrumental pedagogy and concert trombone at the University of Music there.
Pošta Maribor brass band
The Pošta Maribor Wind Orchestra was founded in 1931, and today it is an eighty-member orchestra of the highest quality.
Nina Pirc
Nina Pirc started learning the violin at the Krško School of Music, then continued her education at Velenje High School of Music with Igor Ulokin and at the Ljubljana High School of Music and Ballet with Jerne Brencet.
Ivan Vanja Radoja
Since 2009, Ivan Vanja Radonja has been a member of the legendary world music group Mostar Sevdah Reunion, which, with its unique combination of original Sevdalinka with jazz, blues, soul and ethnic elements, fascinates audiences all over the world.
Gregor Ravnik
Gregor Ravnik has established himself as one of the most versatile and promising academic solo singers in the region, specializing in popular and operatic music.
Lajos Sárközy Jr. & Band
Lajos Sárközy Jr. was born in Budapest in a family of musicians. He started playing the violin when he was only three years old. His first teacher was his father, who is also a violinist.
SiBRASS
The brass quintet SiBRASS was formed in autumn 2011 at the initiative of members of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of RTV Slovenia.
Martin Sikur
Martin Sikur studied cello with Ciril Škerjanec at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, with Enrico Bronzi and Giovanni Gnocchi at the Fondazione Musicale Santa Cecilia in Portogruaro, Italy, and chamber music with Chiu Chou at the University of Music and...
SNG Maribor Symphony Orchestra
The SNG Maribor Symphony Orchestra is the central instrumental ensemble in its region with a relatively long tradition of re-creation.
Matjaž Skaza
Matjaž Skaza began his musical journey with percussion at the Music School of Slovenske Konjica under his mentor Avgust Skaza.
Mustafa Šantić
Mustafa Šantić was born in Mostar, where he completed primary and secondary music school. He graduated as a clarinetist from the Academy of Music in Sarajevo. Music has always had a central place in his life.
Monika Trilar Babič
Since 2018, Monika Trilar Babič has been the solo oboist of the orchestra of the Slovenian National Theater Maribor.
Janez Usenik
While studying at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Janez Usenik began to get more serious about journalistic work, performing arts and the media. He continued his professional career in these fields after abandoning his studies.
Albert Wieder
In 2001, he won the audition for the position of tuba player in the stage orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, where he has been employed ever since. As part of this engagement, he regularly substitutes in the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic.