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HOMMAGE À FRANČIŠEK SMERDU: SIXTY YEARS LATER

Academy-trained sculptor Frančišek Smerdu (1908, Postojna–1964, Ljubljana) is remembered on the one hand as a remarkably subtle and insightful interpreter of the human body, which he exalted, through his sculptural and wider artistic vision, in heroic, martial poses that are nevertheless full of human feeling, in public monuments commemorating important events or figures that typically feature monumentally accentuated perceptions of volumes, masses, surfaces and spaces; and on the other as a refined interpreter of the female form, from which he elicited softness, tenderness, gentleness, sensuousness, eroticism and spiritual beauty.

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OTO PESTNER & BIG BAND RTV SLOVENIA

Over the last 56 years Oto Pestner has performed at around 10,000 concerts in Slovenia and around the world, most of them with the New Swing Quartet or the Alpenoberkrainer or as a soloist. At Ljubljana’s Križanke, the RTV Slovenia Big Band will accompany him on a journey through his rich and diverse musical career, taking in original songs that encapsulate specific moments of his past and some of the arrangements that have made the greatest impression on him. 

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FILARMONICA DELLA SCALA, RICCARDO CHAILLY (conductor)

This year’s summer festival will also be marked by the return of Riccardo Chailly, who appeared at the 61st Ljubljana Festival with the renowned Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. The world-renowned Italian conductor was formerly Kapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and led the Concertgebouworkest (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra) for 16 years.

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MÚSICA POPULAR BRASILEIRA

She will bring her brand of afropop to the summer festival stage in Ljubljana, where she will be joined by Raoní Lima Maciel (guitar), Caio Felipe Ferreira Nascimento (keyboards), Nelmário Marques Cerqueira (bass), Caio Oliveira Dos Santos (percussion) and Joilson Dias Dos Santos (drums).

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UROŠ PERIĆ – 20 Years & RTV Slovenia Big Band

To mark the occasion, he will be hosting a special musical treat at Ljubljana’s beautiful Križanke, featuring world-famous guests and his faithful RTV Slovenia Big Band conducted by Lojze Krajnčan. Uroš Perić began his musical career in 2004 with the Moonlighting Orchestra.

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Ljubljana has been ranked as one of the Global TOP 100 Sustainable Destinations 2017 – again for the third time!

Ljubljana was ranked for the third time in a row. Selection of Ljubljana is a result of its continuous development and implementation of sustainable tourism practices and its excellent performance (Gold status) in the Slovenia Green programme

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CONCERT AT THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF BASSOONIST ZORAN MITEV

After his studies in Skopje, Zoran Mitev graduated from the University of Ljubljana’s Academy of Music in 1987, then completed a specialisation in Graz. In 2010, the Senate of the Academy presented him with the Award for Important Works of Art in the field of bassoon.

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Ensemble.si

These works will be heard in a sophisticated performance by the clarinettist Matic Kuder and hornist Andrej Žust, two of the three Slovenes in the famed Berlin Philharmonic, the flautist Marko Zupan, who has a varied international career as a soloist, chamber musician, improviser, arranger and teacher, the bassoonist Luka Mitev, who has appeared in numerous recitals organised by Jeunesses Musicales Slovenia and the Ljubljana Festival, and the pianist Martina Filjak, whose victory at the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 2009 set her on the path to international success.

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MODANSE - SVETLANA ZAKHAROVA, ballet

The winner of the second prize at the 1995 Vaganova-Prix international ballet competition in St Petersburg, at which she was the youngest contestant, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet in 2003. Zakharova returns to the Ljubljana Festival after an interval of five years, this time with the brand-new double bill Modanse,  produced by the rapidly growing production company MuzArts. 

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JENS-PETER MAINTZ (cello), HARTMUT ROHDE (viola), RICK STOTIJN (double bass), OLE KRISTIAN DAHL (bassoon), RIE ŠIMADA (piano), KEN NAKASAKO (piano), ZSUZSA BÁLINT (piano), NAOKO SONODA (piano)

One of the missions of the Ljubljana Festival is the nurturing of young musicians, which partly takes place through the organisation of masterclasses. Among the guest teachers who return each year are cellist Jens-Peter Maintz, a member of the prestigious Spectrum Concerts Berlin ensemble; violist Hartmut Rohde, an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London; double bassist Rick Stotijn, who has performed world premieres of works by contemporary composers; and bassoonist Ole Kristian Dahl, since 2017 a visiting professor at the Royal College of Music in London.

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