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The global 1-hour show was broadcast on YouTube and featured selected vocal groups from Canada, the United States, Brazil, England, France, Sweden, Denmark, the Philippines, and Slovenia.
Lalita Svete performed a chamber music repertoire with her colleagues, German cellist Maike Clemens and Bulgarian pianist Iliyana Stoyanova, and received a scholarship award.
In November the Adkins Chiti Women in Music Foundation, which focuses on the musical creations of women, awarded ten female composers for their works. Slovene composer and assistant professor at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana Katarina Pustinek Rakar was among the finalists.
The University of Louisville School of Music organizes the annual New Music Festival in Kentucky, which featured guest composer Amy Williams as well as choral works by three Slovene composers in its 2018 edition.
The celebration featured the performance of Ravel's Bolero, given by the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO), which included Slovenian musical talent.
The promising young percussion duo took part in Pleven's flourishing cultural life and is currently preparing for new challenges ahead.
The USA-based jazz musician and saxophone player Jure Pukl has begun a European tour to promote, his latest album Doubtless. The new vinyl album was released by Whirlwind Recordings in May this year and can also be digitally streamed via Bandcamp.
The internationally established Slovenian mezzo-soprano Barbara Kozelj will be performing in the following months at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Royal Theatre in The Hague, NHK Hall in Tokio and the Middle Temple Hall in London and other venues.
At the 19th edition of the Eurovision Young Musicians, which took place at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh on 23 August, the young violinist from Ljubljana Nikola Pajanović performed the 3rd movement of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and was awarded the second prize.
On 3 September one of the world's most prominent classical music festivals, the BBC Proms, featured the work of Slovene composer Nina Šenk. Among the works commissioned from eight women composers in celebration of the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote, Šenk's composition Baca was also chosen.
Passion is the force behind the unbridled creativity, which became the trade mark of the Festival Maribor. This is why passion is in the centre of the festival's 2018 programmes: from Haydn’s passion for beauty to Beethoven’s passion for freedom, from Mozart’s passion for life to children’s passion for learning.
Young soprano Nika Gorič has increasingly been recognised as an indispensable presence on the international classical music stage. Important career highlights have established her as a visible soprano virtuoso in the opera milieu as well as contemporary music scene.
The newly established Slovenian chamber orchestra Vienna cultivates a specific mission. It connects Slovene and Viennese cultural and musical forces, brings together established music professionals from different renowned Austrian orchestras with Slovene music students in the very centre of classical music - Vienna.
The Conservatory of Music and Ballet Ljubljana organises its first piano competition, named after the renowned Slovenian pianist, composer and pedagogue Janez Matitič.
Works by many Slovene composers have recently been taking center stage at concert series and competitions, as well as receiving commissions by international ensembles and choirs.
The Society of Slovene Composers (DSS) is a voluntary professional association of composers and musicologists.
