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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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CONCERTO BUDAPEST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, ALEKSEJ KORNIENKO (conductor), MIKHAIL PLETNEV (piano)

His recordings have won numerous awards, including, in 2005, the Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance for his own arrangement of Prokofiev’s Cinderella  as a suite for two pianos. He appears at the Ljubljana Festival with one of Hungary’s leading ensembles, the Concerto Budapest Symphony Orchestra, whose repertoire extends from large-scale classical orchestral works to contemporary Hungarian music.

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BECAUSE OF ME, BECAUSE OF YOU, BECAUSE OF THE OTHERS – RADE ŠERBEDŽIJA

Having already entertained audiences in Slovenia on numerous occasions with his group Zapadni Kolodvor, he is now set to host a unique artistic evening as part of the summer Ljubljana Festival, presenting a broad selection of works from a catalogue that he has been building since 1974, the year he released his first album.

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LATICA HONDA-ROSENBERG (violin), LANA TROTOVŠEK (violin), FELIX RENGGLI (flute), THOMAS HABERLAH (piano), EVGENY SINAISKI (piano)

These works will be performed by musicians who have all been guest teachers at the Ljubljana Festival Masterclasses for a number of years: violinist Latica Honda-Rosenberg, who combines a successful international career as a concert violinist with teaching at universities in Freiburg and Berlin; violinist Lana Trotovšek, who has achieved international acclaim through her recordings of chamber music by Beethoven, Brahms and Prokofiev and numerous concert appearances; flautist Felix Renggli, who has premiered numerous contemporary works with the Swiss Chamber Soloists and the Ensemble Contrechamps; and pianists Thomas Haberlah, a frequent accompanist at international festivals and masterclasses, including the Ticino Musica Festival in Lugano and Evgeny Sinaiski.

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SPANISH NIGHTS

The soloist will be Fabio Furia, one of the leading bandoneonists, who has opened a bandoneon academy in Italy and regularly gives concerts and masterclasses, and will also be featured in this year’s Ljubljana Festival Masterclasses. A dance piece by the contemporary Mexican composer Arturo Márquez will be performed as an introduction to The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires,  while the Andalusian-inspired suite The Three-Cornered Hat  by Manuel de Falla and Boléro  by Maurice Ravel will follow after the intermission.

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